"Transparent." Guo Yi nodded slightly, noncommittal.
MD, these people all have the same tune. Xu Yanliang couldn't help but start complaining. The plain face, the emotionless tone, the literal words...
"Yes, transparent." Xu Yanliang repeated emphatically.
"What specific transparency law is it?"
This is asking me to bid. Xu Yanliang thought, there is a way!
"In this way, the director of the security department within the company will be concurrently served by me or a certain veteran at the director level of Nanyang Company. You will send a veteran or a naturalized cadre to serve as the executive deputy director. Specific business will naturally be handled by the executive deputy director. To manage. But the relevant work must be approved and reviewed by the minister. There can be no hiding."
"Then what?"
"As a full minister, I guarantee that the company will not interfere with the daily work of the Security Department."
"Then I want to know, what benefits can the bureau get?"
Xu Yanliang thought for a moment that he heard wrongly, and quickly asked: "What did you say?"
"I mean, what's the benefit to the bureau?"
This was something I never thought about, because in the view of Nanyang Company's leadership, the Political Security Bureau was bound to set up a branch in Nanyang Company, and even if they were unwilling, they would do everything possible to "infiltrate inside." Allowing them to exist and assigning people to manage them is a very favorable condition.
“Isn’t it your job to set up political and security branches?”
"This requires the approval of the Senate. So far, we have not received such an approval document."
"If not now, there will be later."
"In this case, what kind of deal is this?" Guo Yi smiled, "This is taking out something that originally belongs to me and selling it to me."
Xu Yanliang was stunned for a moment, then thought again that this was indeed the case.
"Then Nanyang Company can also refuse the entry of political and security agencies..."
Guo Yi smiled: "It would be no problem if the Senate issued a document agreeing. But based on my many years of experience working at the Guangzhou Station, this is not realistic."
Xu Yanliang thought about it and understood. The other party was not satisfied with the condition of "not interfering with daily work": "Then tell me your conditions."
"I think the conditions you proposed are very reasonable and not excessive at all. The bureau can also provide more goodwill: we can provide you with the list of all hidden personnel who will work in Nanyang Company in the future and ensure that their reports are 'controllable'. ’." Guo Yi said.
This condition is even better than Xu Yanliang thought. But he knew that the better the conditions, the higher the next offer would be.
"What do we have to pay?"
"Support the work of the bureau." Guo Yi said, "Not only in Nanyang."
Okay! Xu Yanliang thought that the conditions were not low. He pondered for a moment, raised his head and asked, "Is this what you mean or..."
"Of course this is what the bureau means." Guo Yi said, "You don't have to answer me right away."
Watching Xu Yanliang walk out of the door by the window, Guo Yi sat back at his desk, picked up a green phone receiver, whispered a few instructions, then lowered his head and wrote something on the official paper, and put it in a kraft paper envelope After finishing the manuscript paper, I took out a small square seal and sealed it. He pulled the bell rope casually.
The doorknob turned and his secretary appeared in the doorway.
"I'll dictate, and you draft the materials." Guo Yi raised his finger and pointed to a small table, which was filled with bound documents.
"Yes, Comrade Director." The female secretary immediately sat down behind the small table and took out a pen and paper, "I'm ready."
"First, draft a memorandum in the name of the Political Security Bureau and send it to the Government Council, with copies to the Admiralty, the Department of Colonial Trade, the General Office, the Foreign Intelligence Service, and the Nanyang Company. The content includes the following points: First, our bureau has decided to take A series of positive measures to completely eliminate the threat posed by the Li Siya Group to us. The initial plan is to use the current shareholder of Southeast Asia Company, Navy Reserve Lieutenant Li Huamei; secondly, it has been found that Li Huamei has had an intersection with the Li Siya Group in his personal history. Our bureau plans to use this operation to find out his true resume; third, for this purpose, the Political Security Bureau will set up a special team within Nanyang Company to carry out this task. That’s it.”
As he spoke, the female secretary wrote down the key points sentence by sentence on the paper. Then start writing
Guo Yi picked up the tea cup and took a few sips. His temples were a little swollen, so he rubbed them with his hands. Since he came to the Political Security Bureau as the section chief, in order to familiarize himself with the situation as quickly as possible, he has been reading materials until midnight for several days - to be honest, working until midnight is not uncommon among the seniors. No matter what department you are in, there are offices and studios with lights on at two or three in the morning. If the Ministry of Health and the General Office had not warned the elders many times that this would increase their chances of sudden death, and launched "forced rest" patrols at night, there would have been many people who stayed up all night for several days.
However, he is no longer used to such high-intensity work. When I was in Guangzhou, no matter how busy I was, I would go to bed after ten o'clock. He has lived in this slow and long rhythm of medieval society for almost ten years, and now he has returned to his old profession, which is somewhat uncomfortable.
Compared with Li Siya and Li Huamei, he knew that Nanyang Company was a troublesome existence. To some extent, the Nanyang Company will become like the British East India Company sooner or later. At that time, the British government also spent a lot of troubles and costs in dealing with the East India Company. However, its existence and development cannot be allowed. After all, the needs of reality outweigh countless rational speculations.
In fact, neither Zhao Manxiong nor he was interested in setting up a branch in Nanyang Company. The reason is simple: in the vast sea and vast Southeast Asia, just a few ten-man regiments and reconnaissance teams are like sprinkling sesame seeds. They have no radio stations to use, and can only rely on emails sent back by regular ships to convey messages and orders. The Political Security Bureau's management and command of them is ineffective.
It is impossible to carry out work in such an environment without the full cooperation of Nanyang Company. This is also why Director Zhao is so "generous" in this matter.
"...Comrade Director, the report has been written!" The secretary interrupted his thoughts, "Please take a look."
Guo Yi's eyes quickly scanned the rows of neat, almost printing-like fonts, nodded, and changed "utilizing the special relationship between Li Huamei and Elder Qi" to "making use of recent changes in Li Huamei's ideological tendencies."
"Copy a copy for the bottom, and then take it to be mimeographed." Guo Yi added, "And the summary of the file materials of the Liang Li project that I asked you to make yesterday should also be copied in the same number as an attachment. By the way, Elder Wu Nanhai will also send a copy."
"Do you want to send the memo to Chief Wu? He is not on the CC list."
"No, he only sends abstracts."
"Understood." the female secretary repeated, "There are six memos and seven summary appendices. Elder Wu Nanhai only sent the summary appendix."
"Yes. Here is the permission slip for copying top-secret documents," Guo Yi said as he signed his name in the lower right corner of a straw-yellow form. "This letter and the attachment are classified as top-secret."
Not long after the secretary left, he knocked on the door again and came in, reporting that two trainee commanders had been ordered to come.
"Invite them in."
The door opened, and two young men in black uniforms walked in with standard steps. Their faces still retain the childishness of their youth, but their expressions are very serious. Their thin bodies maintain a standard standing posture, and their dazzling eyes stare straight at Guo Yi at the desk.
"Comrade Director! Trainee commanders Lin Zhijian/Zheng Yicheng are ordered to report for duty!" Mandarin with a faint southern Fujian accent.
As students in the political security training class, Lin Zhijian and Zheng Yicheng can be said to be very representative types of "the Senate is willing to train cadres". Both of them were born into fishermen's families in southern Fujian and are both 18 years old this year. The resumes are also very similar. Most of his parents and family members died in natural disasters and man-made disasters, and were taken in by the Senate.
Unlike ordinary "bitter and resentful" children, they are not orphans. The Political Security Bureau was actually not too keen on the selection of "orphans". The common feature of these two people is that they have relatives: one is his younger brother, and the other is his disabled mother-in-law. They both came out to make a living at a young age to support their families.
In Zhao Manxiong's view, people with such family ties are more resilient and loyal.
Every year, the Political Security Bureau selects suitable candidates for training from children admitted to military and political training schools. Wumu noticed that the files of these two teenagers had comments from veteran teachers as "silent, calm, smart and agile". After interviews and a series of tests, they were officially admitted to the political security training class.
The political security training class two years ago is no longer the short-term training class of Ke Yun and Lu Cheng. It is a serious two-year systematic study. Both the cultural level and professional knowledge are higher than those who graduated from the short-term training class back then. The college has made a qualitative leap. He is also a newcomer that Zhao Manxiong has high hopes for.
"Lin Zhijian, please personally deliver this letter to the elder Qi Feng of the Construction Corporation. Yes, he is the chief planner. Ask him to read it in person and destroy it, and then bring back his reply orally."
"Yes!" Lin Zhihan took the envelope, touched his heels and turned to leave.
"Zheng Yicheng, I have another task for you. Please sit down first..."
When Lin Zhijian stepped into the door of the construction company, Qi Feng was sitting in the office drawing pictures as usual, or in other words, building the perfect city in his mind on drawing paper.
This artistic idealist is not as simple as many people think: he never had a loud argument with Mei Wan, the manager of the construction company, over the design concept, like Ji Runzhi, but always kept silently. Complete the design tasks assigned to him - these designs basically do not require him to use his brain or artistic imagination. He only needs to follow the relevant specifications. There are countless solutions that can be directly used for reference, or rather "simplified". And devote most of his spare time to "noble artistic undertakings". The reason why I say only most of them is because he is also quite keen on managing his personal life and is a man with a rich interest in life.
(End of chapter)
