The door to the conference room of the Guangzhou Political Security Bureau was suddenly pushed open. As two guards appeared, Zhao Manxiong strode in. His dark and fat face was covered with dark clouds. He sat around the U-shaped conference table in the room. When everyone saw him coming in, they all stood up and silently paid attention to him. Zhao Manxiong walked to the middle of the conference table and stood there. He shrugged his shoulders and shook off the windbreaker on his body. The secretary behind him stopped it lightly with his hand, put the windbreaker across his arms, and hung it silently on the door. On the side hanger.
All participants stood at attention together, because the first deputy director of the General Administration personally presided over the meeting, and all participants were wearing uniforms.
Zhao Manxiong nodded slightly to everyone in the room, motioned for everyone to sit down, and said: "Everyone has worked hard during this period. The local work is complicated and complicated, especially when it involves local clans and gentry. There are many clues, involved, and difficult to handle. The situation It is complicated, but we can only face the difficulties. Guangzhou is our starting point. We will start from here to learn lessons and sum up experience to face more arduous and difficult tasks in the future. Only with a steady footing can we climb Higher. I said, Director Wu and I will fight side by side with everyone."
Everyone in the Political Security Bureau knew that the first deputy director rarely left Lingao. This is my first time coming to Guangzhou. The sudden arrival obviously raised the case at hand to an unprecedented level.
Zhao Manxiong nodded to Wu Mu to signal the meeting to begin. Wu Mu was not in a hurry to speak, but lowered his head and flipped through two pages of the document in his hand. This caused a brief silence in the conference room.
Shao Qing, Wu Mu raised his head and said: "The anti-Song forces in Guangzhou headed by Liang Cunhou have been hiding in the dark since we seized power in Guangzhou. The general situation is already known from the information issued before, but before we could only Obtaining scattered information is like a broken puzzle, and it is difficult to see the whole picture. Now we have made some new progress, which allows us to roughly outline some outlines of the intentions of the anti-Song forces in Guangzhou headed by Liang Cunhou."
Having said this, Wu Mu stood up and went to the blackboard in front of the conference room. He picked up the chalk from the low table next to him and drew a square on the blackboard and wrote the person in the square. Then he said: "This is the first square." Jigsaw puzzle and recruiting personnel. On the one hand, Liang Cunhou established Yuyuan Society and recruited scholars who were dissatisfied with the policies of the Song Dynasty regime in China as the backbone to conduct research and interpretation of our policies. In addition, I believe that some of these personnel should have indirectly participated in " In the compilation of "Tianqing Guangwenlu", they sometimes also do some work of compiling and exposing posts and concocting rumors. On the other hand, they look for hostile elements and their families in the countryside who have had hostile acts with us in Australia and Song Dynasty and who have been suppressed by us. These people have often been attacked by us, some even repeatedly. They have stubborn ideas and resolute will to resist, and it is difficult to transform them. However, they are temporarily lurking due to our power. These people are the anti-Song forces that Liang Cunhou fought for. Backbone, I understand that there was once a scholar named Huang from Lingao who had contact with Liang Cunhou and recruited so-called righteous men for him in the countryside. These people formed an anti-Song alliance with the same purpose as Liang Cunhou, but the structure of this organization was relatively loose. There is no unified leadership.”
After saying that, Wu Mu drew a square on the blackboard and wrote public opinion. He put it together with the first square and said: "This is the second piece of the puzzle, to create public opinion. Liang Cunhou and his group have been collecting our relevant public publications. , they can also have a limited understanding and understanding of some of our policies, and many of our policies deprive and restrict the rights of the old ruling class. At the same time, they use some omissions in the initial stage of the establishment of the Guangzhou Municipal Government to target our country. The regime spread rumors, slandered, demagogueed, and slandered, and printed relevant content as public notices and distributed them secretly, creating dissatisfaction and opposition among the gentry class, and through aristocratic families, gentry, and clan elders, they controlled and influenced the citizens, rural peasants, and , tenant farmers and other groups conduct radiant propaganda, deny the legitimacy of the Australian and Song Dynasty's governance, create the image of us as anti-thieves and a puppet regime, promote remarks such as "we can just get a vote and leave, rabbits can't grow tails", and spread some words like "People have a heart, Reactionary slogans such as "The sky has eyes, the traitorous country will not last long", "The loyal heart shines on the sun and the moon, the bravery forges the universe, the hair is not my kind, the sword is used to sweep away the evil spirit", etc., to shake the foundation of our rule at the grassroots level through public opinion , and most ordinary people are uneducated and lack discernment, and it is still difficult for us to fundamentally replace local forces in the countryside. Coupled with the constraints of funds, manpower, etc., it is difficult for propaganda work to sink, which temporarily gives them an opportunity to take advantage of. Moreover, judging from the actual situation, many wealthy gentry families in the old Guangzhou Prefecture are more or less dissatisfied and misunderstood our policies, and are somewhat hostile. Most large households adopt a wait-and-see approach. This attitude is not to participate in their conspiracy, but they are silent about it. They want to see how good we are, and they also have the intention of using this to increase the difficulty of our governance and increase the price of our redemption in the future."
Wu Mu paused for a moment, drew a third square on the blackboard, wrote intelligence on it, spliced it with the second square, and said: "This is the third square, intelligence collection. Judging from the information we have now, Liang Cunhou collects intelligence. There are three sources in total. The first is public publications, which is what we call white intelligence. Most of the intelligence of an intelligence agency can be obtained from open source data analysis. This is especially true for tampering that lacks confidentiality awareness. There is only a small amount of intelligence. It needs to be obtained through covert means, which is what we call black intelligence. Of course, this is for us, and our enemies do not yet have this ability at this stage. But Liang Cunhou is different. He has conducted a relatively in-depth investigation of us. Through research, we initially realized the importance of intelligence, but we underestimated the enemy's learning ability and sometimes were not strict enough in reviewing various publications. Many of the more sensitive data and content were directly written in various official documents and books. This is The enemy has provided convenience. The second is to take advantage of the establishment of the Guangzhou Municipal Government and retain a large number of old officials to infiltrate our government departments. These people have inherited the work style of tampering with the yamen. They talk nonsense everywhere no matter what the content is. Or sell it to Liang Cunhou and others for a reward of only a few cents sometimes. Liang Cunhou can even obtain handwritten copies of official documents from these people. The third is to use the grassroots gentry to understand our situation through seeing, hearing, and speaking. Some information such as administrative layout, military deployment, and the arrival and departure of materials. And the intelligence compilation and analysis collection called "Tianqing Guangwenlu" should have been obtained through public channels as well as collected secretly by himself. Once these information fell into the It will play a great role in the hands of people who have ulterior motives and know us well. Liang Cunhou is the first enemy who looks at us squarely, is willing to understand us, and is willing to learn from us."
Wu Mu then drew the fourth square and said: "The fourth piece of the puzzle is armed strength. A few days ago, through tracking, we discovered a stronghold that Liang Cunhou claimed was deployed by Wu Di in Guangzhou. During the tracking process, the target was changed. By riding, turning back twice, changing paths multiple times, and setting up response personnel, they have some awareness of counter-reconnaissance, which shows that they have some understanding of our investigation and working methods. It can now be determined that there are eight people in this stronghold, and this number is obviously It has been considered that if there are too few people, the strength will be insufficient, and if there are too many people, it will be difficult to manage. After several days of monitoring this stronghold, we learned through tracking and surveillance that they have another stronghold in the city, which is mainly used for emergency hiding of personnel. and item hiding. In addition to a recent purchase they made, we analyzed that there is at least one camp outside the city, which is used for the daily life, training and activities of the remaining armed personnel, because the number of their purchases is far from that in the stronghold. The personnel can be consumed. But it is different from what we originally thought. These people are not directly taking orders from Liang Cunhou, but are his allies. They are independent and can exist independently once they leave the Liang family. We have control over this part. The situation is not sufficient yet, but it is speculated that there should not be many of them, no more than a hundred people, otherwise the financial resources will be difficult to support. These people usually do some hard work for the Liang family and collect intelligence. Once the opportunity arises, they will be used as the backbone to establish an alliance. These people have a certain understanding of the law enforcement methods of the Australian and Song Dynasty regimes. Once they engage in anti-Song Dynasty activities, they will cause more harm than ordinary hostile elements. They are also our key targets this time."
After pausing for a moment, Wu Mu connected the four squares with chalk, drew a large circle and enclosed all four squares, and said: "In this way, the general map of the anti-Song forces headed by Liang Cunhou is relatively complete. , let’s talk about his purpose of making these preparations.”
At this time, one of the participants raised his hand, Wu Mu tapped him with his hand, and the person said: "Director Wu, why don't we take action now to take down that stronghold and arrest Liang Cunhou directly?"
Wu Mu nodded and said: "This kind of armed gang will become bandits when they gather, and they will become the people when they disperse. They are highly mobile. Once the strongholds in the city are taken away and they are aware of it, most of the people outside the city are likely to be organized." They are hidden among the people and become a hidden factor of instability, which is even more detrimental to us. We hope that through a unified operation, we can destroy this armed group at once and completely eliminate the hidden dangers. During several days of surveillance, we analyzed them There should be connections outside the city. Through the clues provided by Lesson 9, the surveillance subject has relatively frequent contacts with private money dealers inside and outside the city, and regularly exchanges silver coins for banknotes and silver dollars. It is speculated that this is maintenance expenses prepared for people outside the city. , combined with the information from a while ago, this gang does not rely on the support of the Liang family, but has other financial resources. Therefore, there must be a bigger conspiracy behind the Liang family. It may be the Shi Weng Group we have been looking for .”
(End of chapter)
