After the meeting, Su Yonglin secretly summoned Ma Ziang, leader of the Third Operation Team of the Skynet Army operating in the Lingnan area, to hold him accountable.
Su Yonglin wanted to ask him why he didn't report some problems in Guangzhou to the central government.
Ma Ziang felt very uneasy about this, apologized to Su Yonglin, and then told him his difficulties.
"Since the sixth year of Hongwu, the Tianwang Army Headquarters has ordered the Third Action Team to shift the main direction of investigation from the Lingnan mainland to the countries south of Lingnan, especially the Li family of South Vietnam, the Champa Kingdom, and Zhenla Kingdom, the farthest one is the Kingdom of Sri Lanka.
Not only that, when the Seventh Action Group was operating in Sichuan and Sichuan, a certain number of agents from the Third Action Group went to support, further reducing the manpower. Although the Third Action Group also had the responsibility of detecting illegal activities of local officials, there were indeed many people on hand. Not enough, so..."
"Is this all a request from the Skynet Army headquarters?"
"Yes, these are clear requirements from the Skynet Army headquarters. The third action team is following orders."
Su Yonglin felt a little helpless after hearing Ma Ziang's explanation.
The training of spies is actually no easier than training a cadre. Even in the early days of the establishment of the Skynet Army, many key personnel were transferred from the cadres of the Renaissance Society.
And except for a few founders such as Su Yin who were trained as professional spies by the Su family since childhood, most of them became monks halfway. It is actually not easy to reach this point.
Currently, there are not many secret agents in the entire Skynet Army system. There are 13 action groups with a total number of less than 6,000.
The reason why the Skynet Army's spies can spread all over the world is because many Skynet Army spies can often find collaborators in their industry or environment, and let these peripheral members help with or without their knowledge.
As for the growth of members, it mainly relies on the old to guide new ones and recommend them to join. The spies select outstanding, capable and talented ones from the peripheral members to develop into official Skynet Army spies.
In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, funds were tight and there were not enough manpower to do things. The Tianwang Army mainly relied on itself to train talents. It was not until the fifth year of Hongwu that the secret agent training school under the Tianwang Army was secretly established with funding from the Ministry of Finance.
A series of peripheral members of the Skynet Army were recommended to study in training schools, and some spies themselves chose to go to schools to receive in-depth re-education and improve their professional skills.
So far, the Skynet Army has a stable reserve talent training system.
Everyone is busy, hoping to train more outstanding spies for the Ming Dynasty, to spy on enemy intelligence externally, and to uncover corrupt officials and traitors internally.
However, the number of people is still limited at present, the training speed is not that fast, and there is a shortage of manpower in many aspects.
And of course there are things they can't do, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would be able to rule the country with the help of his Imperial Guard, and Dai Ying would not be so transparent that he could still be infiltrated by the Soviet Union despite having an intelligence organization as "famous" as MI6.
To put it bluntly, intelligence organizations cannot save the country from destruction. No matter how strong the spy leader is, he is nothing more than a dagger.
So Su Yonglin reached out to help Ma Ziang, sighed, and said helplessly: "I also have too much expectations for you. Many times, the government and the Renaissance Association cannot give me information, so I can only place my hope on you." , I am more concerned about internal chaos than external threats.
To put it bluntly, I don’t think there is any country that can threaten the security of Ming Dynasty from the outside. The Ming Dynasty’s army is enough to crush them. What I worry about is nothing more than some internal chaos that makes us self-defeating. That’s why I need you. . "
Ma Ziang looked ashamed.
"The incompetence of his subordinates is what worries the chairman."
Su Yonglin shook his head.
"This is not all your problem, it is also my problem. Although intelligence is important, there are always things that intelligence cannot do. Zi Ang, don't blame yourself too much. I will find a way to supplement your manpower. In short, external forces To spy, keep a close eye on the inside."
"I see."
Ma Ziang nodded, turned and left.
After he left, Su Yonglin thought about it and felt that it was necessary to treat this matter as an important national risk.
Like the cadre problem, at present, the internal problems of the entire Ming Dynasty are mainly reflected in the insufficient number of cadres and the uneven quality. Many local problems can be attributed to this reason.
And this reason involves some historical issues, such as Su Yonglin's uprising was successful too quickly, and Wanyan's brilliant operation caused the Jin Kingdom to collapse too quickly, so that Su Yonglin did not have enough time to train enough cadres, so he had to The process of governing the country has begun.
At the beginning, Su Yonglin planned to seize the window period during which Wan Yanliang committed suicide to help the revolution gain a firm foothold, establish a regime in Shandong or the Central Plains that would confront the Jin Kingdom, and use five or ten years to strengthen himself and defeat the Jin Dynasty. country.
At that time, he did have the idea of tearing apart the Jin Kingdom's regime in the short term, but he himself felt that this was unlikely. Su Yonglin, who first discovered that the Jin Kingdom was on the verge of collapse, was excited, but soon came to his senses and felt that this It may not be an absolute good thing.
If Jin Guoren persists longer, there will be relatively sufficient time for him to train enough cadres and give these cadres enough fighting experience.
But in a sense, he overestimated his opponent.
He thought that under his own offensive, his opponents could last for at least five, six, or seven or eight years. Who would have thought that in just three years, the class contradictions, national contradictions, and contradictions within the ruling class within the Jin Kingdom broke out together? , directly blowing the Kingdom of Jin into pieces.
Su Yonglin himself was wondering whether his tactics in dealing with the Jin Kingdom were too sharp, so that the Jin Kingdom, a semi-slave and semi-feudal country that had not even completed feudalization, could not hold on, so it collapsed prematurely.
When others collapse, wouldn't you be a fool if you don't step up to establish political power?
Su Yonglin stepped forward to establish the political power. In order to complete the overreach and not provoke the Southern Song Dynasty in advance, he even governed the Central Plains and Yanyun in the name of the Liberation Army and the Zhongdu General Affairs Bureau. It took a long time before he officially proclaimed himself the emperor and founded the country.
Due to the lack of reliable and outstanding cadres, Su Yonglin had to accept the old bureaucrats and old gentry in the early days of the Ming Dynasty. This led to major corruption cases and the first great purge in the second and third years of Hongwu, and then laid the foundation for the second great purge. Foreshadowing.
After that, in order to fill the vacancy in the number of cadres, the training of cadres could only be further accelerated. Although Su Yonglin repeatedly emphasized the need to tighten standards, it is completely contradictory to speed up the pace and tighten the standards at the same time.
Therefore, in terms of actual implementation, it is basically to relax the standards and speed up the process in order to pursue high-speed cadre output to fill the current increasing shortage of grassroots cadres and officials.
This dumpling-style cadre training speed will of course cause problems. Warships and large ships can train dumplings, but cadres cannot.
It's just that under the current situation, Su Yonglin has no other choice in order to have someone to do things. Besides, cadres trained at high speed may not necessarily be unqualified.
Given the lesser of two evils, he can only choose to launch multiple rectification campaigns in the future to gradually expel this group of unqualified cadres in order to correct the current mistakes he has made out of necessity.
So what should we do about the consequences of the various wrong behaviors that occur in this current situation?
What should we do about the suffering caused by these wrong people and things to the people?
Su Yonglin sighed and found out helplessly that he also had something that he couldn't solve no matter what.
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