Spy War 1929

Chapter 297

More than a month ago, Chen Ledao proposed to Fabre to set up a supervisory department in the patrol house to better ensure that the entire patrol house abides by the law.

After listening to Chen Ledao's suggestion, Fabre agreed very much, and soon wrote a proposal and handed it to the consulate, in which he described in detail the benefits and necessity of setting up a supervisory department.

Fabre came to Shanghai as the director of the police department because the country was extremely dissatisfied with the corruption of the police department in the Shanghai Concession. Fabre was asked to come to clean up corruption.

Ordinary people may not know this, but most of the consulate officials know about it.

Fabre asked to set up a supervisory department, which is his job content.It is in line with the tasks assigned to Fabre by the country.The officials of the consulate naturally couldn't refuse.

If Fabre is asked to complain to the country because of suppressing Fabre's proposal, then their positions may be unstable by then.

The errands in the French Concession in Shanghai are fat jobs, which is recognized. No matter whether you are a smart person or a fool, you don't want to lose this easy-to-money pocketbook.

Not to mention, whether the supervisory department is established or not has no effect on them at all, and they cannot be supervised anyway.

Although the French do not have this term, it does not mean that they do not have this understanding.

No one likes to do things that harm others and benefit oneself.

Therefore, after Fabre put forward his idea, the officials of the consulate just had a few regular meetings, talked about it, and then readily agreed.

The establishment of a supervisory department is not the same as adding a secretary to Chen Ledao.

This is modifying the framework structure of the police department, allowing the police department to create an additional office out of thin air.This kind of thing, no matter which country or institution it is in, is a matter of caution.

Less than a month after Fabre's proposal was submitted, the consulate readily agreed to it, which was beyond Chen Ledao's expectation.

In such a powerful department, shouldn't all parties argue and exchange various interests, and after various mutual compromises, all parties will share the appropriate interests before agreeing?
Chen Ledao wasn't sure if his idea came from watching too many power struggle dramas.

All he knew was that Fabre's thigh that he was holding seemed to be much thicker than he had imagined.

Fabre's face at the consulate seems to be bigger than he imagined.

"Director, hasn't the consulate appointed the head of the Integrity Bureau?"

Chen Ledao sat opposite Fabre, with a puzzled look on his face.Of course, he already knew the answer to this question.

Fabre looked at the curious look on Chen Ledao's face, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and nodded slightly:

"We discussed this matter at the meeting, and I proposed that you be the director of the Integrity Bureau. Counselor Martin and Public Director Mena both expressed their support.

You know Mr. Consul is leaving his post and he doesn't care who the INT director is.

Seeing that we all recommended you, Mr. Consul agreed smoothly. "

With a slight smile on Fabre's face, the golden curls on his head were all proudly raised, as if telling Chen Ledao the role his old law played in this matter.

In fact, Consul Bernard really didn't care who was the director.

It doesn't matter who is the chief of the bureau, it doesn't matter to him.At that time, he may have returned to China. Whether the work of the Integrity Bureau is good or bad, it doesn't matter what he does.

During this last period of his term of office, he had one and only one job, to make money, or to make a lot of money.

Other than that, nothing else.

If it is possible, Bernard even wants to have a play of "selling the official to sell the noble".

The most important thing before retirement, of course, is to praise yourself a "retirement fund"!

In fact, it's not that Bernard has never received the attention of the director of the Integral Bureau, but!
He wanted to sell, but no one came to buy.

What a fool!

Of course, it is impossible for a Chinese to be the director of such an important place as the supervisory department. The French cannot believe it.
As for the French, although they know that the supervisory department is a fat job, they also want it, but some people don't allow them.

For example, Fabre, the police chief, Mena, the director of the public board, and Martin, the consulate counselor.

The power of the former two in the concession is only under the consul.

One holds the armed forces, and the other holds all the powers except the armed forces.

Of course, the French garrison in Shanghai is not included, and this force is under the control of the consulate.

And Martin, who is also an important official of the consulate, is an important assistant of the consulate.Even if the old consul left, the new consul would rely on Martin a lot.

These three people represented most of the power in the French Concession. Under the "request" of the three of them, no matter whether they were originally interested in the position of Director of the Integrity Bureau or not.

Not even interested.

The seller wants to sell, but the buyer doesn't want to buy,
In the end, it was cheaper for Chen Ledao.

Chen Ledao listened to Fabre talk about the meeting.

The consul delayed for more than half a month and held three meetings on who would be the chief, but no one wanted to pay for the position of chief.

This is weird...

Because of this, the old consul was very bored, and I heard that there were a lot of blisters on his lips.

That's called getting angry.

After hearing this, the corners of Chen Ledao's mouth slowly raised. With a smile on his face, he secretly praised Mena and Martin for their strength.

Of course, these two people didn't help Chen Ledao for no reason. It was enough to do something without asking for anything in return. If they did it every time, they would be taken advantage of.

After Chen Ledao knew that Fabre had submitted a proposal for the establishment of a supervisory department, he took the initiative to approach Mena.

As the general manager of the board of directors, Mena manages many miscellaneous affairs in the concession, he has to manage taxes, he has to manage bridge repairs, he has to manage road paving, he has to manage fire alarms, and he has to manage strikes...

During the last strike incident, Mena had a deep understanding of how capable people like Chen Ledao and Feng Jingyao are.

These people may not be enough for success, but they are definitely more than enough for failure.If they want to, they can screw you up and annoy you.

Therefore, making friends with Chen Ledao was something Bernard, the chief administrator of the concession, had to do.

If the French belong to the river dragons in Shanghai, then people like Chen Ledao and Feng Jingyao are local snakes.

As the saying goes, strong dragons do not overwhelm local snakes.

So when Chen Ledao took the initiative to find Mena and asked him to help, Mena readily agreed.

Don't feel that Mena is at a loss, favors are reciprocal.

He helped Chen Ledao this time, and it was up to Chen Ledao to help him next time.

For Chen Ledao, who has a lot of reputation among the citizens of the concession, Mena is very willing to make friends with him.Not to mention that they already had a pleasant cooperation.

Martin is a friend of Saarley, and Chen Ledao has always adhered to the principle of "Sarley's is his own", so he also regards Martin as a good friend.

Chen Ledao went directly to Martin's house under the pretext of thanking Martin for his help with the Chief Inspector.

A theory of "a friend of a friend is a friend" perfectly turned Martin into his friend.

Then he instilled in Martin the concept of "for the sake of friends, go both ways". After playing a series of emotional cards and one or two benefit cards, he also successfully turned Martin into his hard-core friend.

With the help of Martin, Mena and Saarley, Chen Ledao is like Liu Bang having the Three Heroes of the early Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu having the Meteor Shower, and Liu Bei having Zhuge Guanzhang.

Doing things is called a success.

The Integrity Bureau fell into his hands almost effortlessly, which was even easier than when it was the Chief Inspector.

"Now the approval document for raising the Integrity Bureau and your letter of appointment have come down, and you will concurrently serve as chief inspector and director of the Integrity Bureau.

The specific framework of the ICAC consulate is for us to decide, and now Mr. Consul has no mind to deal with these chores. "

Fabre said to Chen Ledao with a smile.

Originally, these should have been discussed by Fabre and the consulate, but the consul Bernard was too lazy to worry about them, so he threw them all to Fabre.

In dealing with political affairs, Bernard has a bit of the old school's charm of inaction.

Of course, Huang Lao's rule by doing nothing does not mean doing nothing.There is still a difference.

"Director, do you have any ideas for the ICAC, and how should I go about it?" Chen Ledao asked directly.

This matter was handed over to the police department, so of course it was Fabre who made up his mind.

Fabre laughed when he heard Chen Ledao's words.

"You were the one who suggested the establishment of the supervisory department, and you are the one who will be in charge of the work of the Integrity Bureau in the future. So it's up to you to make up your own mind on how to do it.

I will give you full authority to set up the Integrity Bureau. "

Fabre has a smile on his face, an expression that I trust you very much and you have to do a good job.

It's a joke, I miss him Fabre, but even most of the troublesome things in the police department are left to Xue Liangying, how can he take such a brain-intensive task as forming an anti-corruption bureau into his own hands!

Delegating power, delegating power is the true meaning of being a director.

This is the truth Fabre summed up from Xue Liangying.

Facts have proved that after he handed over all those troublesome things to Xue Liangying, Xue Liangying felt that he was reused, so he worked more attentively, and the most important thing was that he himself was liberated.

This is killing three birds with one stone!
Fabre tasted the sweetness from this matter.

Now the police department is changing step by step, which is similar to his original idea.

In Fabre's view, Chen Ledao's abilities are no worse than Xue Liangying's. Whether it's the Xiafei Road arrest house or the central arrest house, Chen Ledao has been slowly changing for the better since he took office.

Moreover, while handling official business, Chen Ledao also managed his own business very well.This is enough to show that Chen Ledao's potential has not been fully tapped.

Therefore, Fabre confidently left the matter of the ICAC to Chen Ledao.

Fabre firmly believes that with Chen Ledao's ability, the affairs of the ICAC will not be messed up.

Since he won't be smashed, what else do he care about.

Doesn't the Chinese have a saying that you don't have to be suspicious when you employ people, and you don't need to be suspicious if you are in doubt. Fabre thinks this is too reasonable.

I heard from Henry that this was said by a gentleman named Zhou Shuren, and I don't know what other famous remarks this gentleman made.

Among the Chinese, Fabre's favorite is Mr. Lu Xun who wrote the novel "Diary of a Madman".

"Henry, you can rest assured to do the work of the ICAC, and I will fully support you here.

After the Integrity Bureau is set up, I only need to give me a list of the personnel of the Integrity Bureau, and record the information of these people in the file. "

"Uh, yes, Director."

Chen Ledao didn't expect Fabre to be so forthright. He has seen some decentralization, but he has never seen such a decentralization.

Even Chen Ledao couldn't help being grateful for Fabre's kindness for a certain moment, and felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart.

Is this what it feels like to be trusted?
But this "moment" in Chen Ledao's heart disappeared without a trace in an instant.

After being moved, Chen Ledao was only excited.

This is the first time he has encountered such a good thing.

Since Fabre has entrusted him with all this matter, if he does not use his own money to benefit the public, he does not know what to use to report to Fabre.

It just so happened that Song Jie had trained a group of newcomers, this group of fresh faces who hadn't shown their faces in Ye Weiyang, could just be used to fill the clean bureau.

Let those people follow him to eat at the public office, and help Fabre do a good job in the integrity of the police department.

Chen Ledao felt that it should be enough to repay Fabre's trust by letting his own people do the housework.

And now the people he trained by Ye Weiyang all know hundreds of words, and they even possess special skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Common written letters and simple calculations are no longer a problem for them. This group of people can definitely be regarded as talents in this era.

It is also only Fabre who can let him be so generous in false self-help.

Chen Ledao left the office with two documents given to him by Fabre, one was the document for the formation of the Integrity Bureau, and the other was the letter of appointment for him, the director of the Incorruption Bureau.

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"What, it's back!!" Boss Jin looked at the younger brother in front of him, with surprise and doubt in his eyes.

"Why did you return it? Not enough money?" Boss Jin asked loudly.

If the boy surnamed Chen really disliked him, it would be a bit uninteresting.

Then a box of gold ingots is enough to buy even an armored vehicle, how could it be impossible to buy a few guns!

Jin Shan, Wang Yang, and Gao Jian also looked puzzled. Based on their relationship with Chen Ledao, it would not be a problem to ask Chen Ledao to buy some guns!

Even if Chen Ledao didn't sell guns himself, it shouldn't be a troublesome thing to contact the seller.

"Brother, don't be impatient, listen to what he has to say first, he will never refund the money for no reason." Jin Shan comforted his elder brother.

He still believed in Chen Ledao, he was a man of friendship, since he returned the money, there must be some reason.

At least it's not like the Ax Gang, the Ax Gang eats the gangsters, but Chen Ledao returned the money delivered to the door.This is enough to see that there is an essential difference between Chen Ledao and the Ax Gang.

"Boss, Ye Weiyang's people said that they are out of stock now, and they will contact us when they have stock." The younger brother said to Boss Jin.

"Did they really say that? Didn't they think they were short of money?" Boss Jin asked.

"Uh, it shouldn't be, anyway, that's what Ye Weiyang's third brother told me, saying that it's out of stock now, and contact us when it's back in stock.

Oh, by the way, he also said that Mr. Chen liked the gift you gave him very much, so don't worry, he will contact us as soon as the goods are available. "

As the younger brother talked, he remembered something he hadn't said.

When Boss Jin heard this, his complexion became better. It seemed that that guy was not a greedy guy, but a good friend like Shan Zi said.

(End of this chapter)