Ma Jia stood up and announced: "Next, we will conduct a hearing on whether the Political Security Bureau had any dereliction of duty in the Wuzhou incident." He turned around and said, "Comrade Zhao Manxiong, please."
Zhao Manxiong had already been sitting at the venue. He was still the same as in the past, wearing a faded black cotton uniform top with a harmless smile. Moreover, the vest discovered: Although he is famous and has an outstanding body shape, he has a special ability to be invisible in public places that no one can notice.
Zhao Manxiong took a notebook and came to the auditorium and sat down. After the routine oath and identification, the questioning of the Political Security Bureau began.
Since its establishment, the Political Security Bureau has been a thorn in the side of many elders. Although the charge of "surveilling the elders" has never been verified, for many people, the slogan "Everywhere" on the poster is like the Sword of Damocles. Although the political security bureau's spies placed in various industries and departments do not theoretically monitor the elders, there is no doubt that it is not difficult to "incidentally" mention the elders' behavior in the report.
Therefore, there have been calls within the Senate to abolish the Political Security Bureau. However, the effectiveness of the Political Security Bureau is obvious, especially for departments that rely heavily on the political security system to provide intelligence and security work. In addition, most of the senior officials in the Senate approve of the Political Security Bureau. Zhao Manxiong deliberately kept a low profile. The style of work - Political Security Bureau personnel rarely appear in public and rarely make high-profile public arrests. So this call never came true.
But for those veterans who hate the Political Security Bureau the most, it has become their creed that this department must die. For this reason, they spare no effort to find allies everywhere and seize every major incident to find trouble. It seems that it is not finished until the Political Security Bureau is killed.
The Wuzhou incident obviously gave them another good opportunity. A group of people were gearing up, preparing to directly pull out Zhao Manxiong, the "conspirator in the corner" and "the gray bishop of Bairen City", and criticize him, so as to completely eliminate the dark den of the Political Security Bureau.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Manxiong sat down, someone asked to speak.
Zhao Manxiong coughed slightly, turned to his waistcoat, and said, "Comrade Chairman, before the comrades' questions begin, I have a small request that I hope you can approve."
"Please say."
"I think there will be a lot of questions for today - I can see that there are quite a few comrades who want to speak. In order to save all of us time. I would like to ask the comrades who are asking questions to speak one by one first to form an outline of the question. Then I will follow Answer the questions one by one based on the outline. This can avoid repeated speeches and answers. If you are not satisfied with my answer or have something to add, you can continue to ask questions after I finish answering."
Ma Jia nodded. He was actually quite worried about this old colleague. Because the current situation is unkind to the political and security system, and it is indeed difficult for Zhao Manxiong to defend himself.
He turned his attention to the attendees: "What do you think?"
Although some people suggested that this was "Zhao Manxiong's trick," most of the elders believed that this request was not excessive - they also really couldn't bear the messy yelling questions.
The questioning then began. From the first questioner, Zhao Manxiong did not open the notebook in his hand, but listened carefully and nodded slightly from time to time. Beyond that, it's hard to tell what he's thinking. There was always an indescribable smile on his face.
There are many people asking questions, but to sum up, the main aspects are concentrated on two points; first, Wuzhou is a key frontline city and has veterans stationed there. Why is there only one political security officer transferred from the Foreign Intelligence Service and no other human and material resources? of reinforcements. Luo Yangming, who had no experience in political defense, could only carry out his work with very little support; secondly, there were serious flaws in the political review of Jiang Yougong, Liu Youyi and others. What is the point of having political commentators controlled by political security guards?
Seeing that no one was speaking, Ma Jia asked, "Is there anyone else asking questions?"
He asked three times in a row, and after confirming that no one wanted to speak again, he nodded to indicate that Zhao Manxiong could start.
Zhao Manxiong nodded, opened his notebook slowly, and said in his usual soft tone:
"Comrades, I just summarized that a total of fifteen questions were raised to the Political Security Bureau and asked me to answer them. Specifically..."
He recounted everyone's questions one by one, and then said, "...I don't know if I left anything out. But that's about it. Everyone should have no objections, right?"
Seeing that no one had objections, Zhao Manxiong continued:
"...Actually, I have summarized these fifteen questions. They mainly focus on two aspects: First, the issue of our power deployment in Wuzhou - it is obviously seriously insufficient. This is a fact, and I have nothing to defend. . The second is the omissions in the political security work that our bureau is responsible for. I have summarized it this way. I guess everyone has no objections, right? By the way, there is another point about the security work of veterans. Comrade Pan has already said this before. This is not what we It’s something within the scope of my authority, so I won’t answer.”
"Say it quickly! There are so many nonsense!" Someone yelled directly below.
"Let me first state my position, which is also the position of our Political Security Bureau. We have nothing to defend the two main issues raised by everyone. Indeed, we have zero investment in Wuzhou and have done a good job in political commentary work. It is also very inadequate and has made big mistakes. This is all true. The comrades are right to criticize. This is also the direction for our future improvement..."
"I'm afraid you won't need to improve..." Someone interjected sarcastically. The waistcoat banged the hammer with a serious look on his face and shouted: "Quiet! If you have any questions, please speak alone in the second question session!"
"...Although the responsibility lies with us, I also want to remind everyone to master some basic background materials first..." He turned to his vest and said, "Please allow me to distribute some basic materials in the form of slides."
"Can."
The venue became dark. No one knew what kind of medicine the secret police leader was selling, and everyone was whispering. A curious expression appeared on his face. Ma Jia actually had no idea. He originally thought that Zhao Manxiong was planning to use the trick of "standing at attention and getting beaten" to get through, but seeing that he was confident enough to distribute the materials, he knew there was a trick.
I went through the information on the slides one by one. It turned out that these materials were all various budget proposals, reports and applications for additional agencies and personnel submitted by the Political Security Bureau - of course, all of them were rejected without exception.
"... Before launching the Guangdong-Guangxi campaign, our bureau submitted a plan for the political security work of Guangdong and Guangxi to the Senate, including specific plans for establishing branches in each county, relevant personnel, and draft budgets. However, these plans were rejected after entering the review stage. All were rejected. Only the budget bill for establishing a branch in Guangzhou and the memorandum on personnel transfer between our bureau and the Foreign Intelligence Bureau were approved. So strictly speaking, except for Guangzhou Special City, there is no formal one in other cities in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. Political security branches." Zhao Manxiong said slowly, "Later, after the occupation of Guangzhou, we proposed a second revised budget, which significantly reduced the size and establishment of each branch. In the relevant supplementary budget review It was also rejected. Therefore, the branches and personnel of our bureau in various places are all allocated by personnel from the Foreign Intelligence Service. Since there is no relevant budget, they are temporarily set up in the form of long-term business trips - of course, this Thanks to the additional subsidies given to our bureau by the local leaders and finance and taxation departments of Guangdong, we can maintain the operation of the political security system in Guangdong at a minimum..."
The venue was suddenly in an uproar. Some of the participants have participated in the review, and some have not. But a few of them knew it very well. Because they were the ones who presided over the campaign of "sniping at the political security to expand their power" at that time, and even held a banquet to celebrate after successfully vetoing the relevant proposals. At this moment, they remembered how they ridiculed Zhao Manxiong and others as "COSPLAY masters" and "Su fans without political ideas" at the celebration banquet.
Ma Jia was also surprised. He knew this. At that time, the budget was attacked twice, and he once discussed with Zhao Manxiong how to deal with the follow-up issues. The first is to continue working and strive to pass it in the supplementary budget review. But this took time; at that time, a plan was proposed to take the administrative route, and the Guangzhou branch would issue documents for "dispatch", and the funds of the local branches would be subsidized by the local government. Of course, in fact, the situation faced by local governments is chaotic and they are unable to provide subsidies and cooperation. Therefore, local branches are basically "one-man agencies" like Luo Yangming who were transferred from local intelligence officers.
But this is not a long-term solution, because in theory, political security is under "vertical leadership" and funds belong to the central budget. This is equivalent to "localization." Therefore, Ma Jia’s suggestion is to start work as soon as possible and strive to pass the budget supplement during the review.
However, Deputy Director Zhao's attitude at the time was very ambiguous. Instead of showing disappointment or anger, he said that he "completely understands the emotions of the elders and will slowly carry out persuasion work."
Could it be that he had long realized that Guangdong would have a similar situation, so he was ready to retreat at this time? The vest's heart tightened - it's very possible!
He thought that after the Lingao incident, Zhao Manxiong often submitted various reports, including increasing budgets, increasing personnel, establishing additional institutions, and various plans and plans for organization and work. Every time the Senate meets to review relevant matters, there will almost always be various applications from the Political Security Bureau, but there is no suspense that most of them are either shot or "partially approved." In fact, the Political Security Bureau has not developed much in these years, and both personnel and funding have remained at a very low level.
