Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2492 Burning Building ([-])

The door of the meeting room of the Guangzhou Political and Security Bureau was suddenly pushed open. Following the appearance of two guards, Zhao Manxiong strode in. His dark and fat face was covered with dark clouds, and he sat around a U-shaped conference table in the room. When everyone saw him coming in, they stood up one after another, paying attention to him silently.Zhao Manxiong walked to the middle of the conference table and stood still. He shrugged his shoulders, and the windbreaker on his body was shaken off. The secretary behind him lightly stopped him with his hand, put the windbreaker across his arms, and hung it silently on the door side hanger.

All the participants stood at attention together, because the first deputy director of the General Administration presided over the meeting in person, and all the participants put on uniforms.

Zhao Manxiong nodded slightly at the people in the room, motioned for everyone to sit down, and said, "Everyone has worked hard during this period, and the work in the local area is complicated, especially when it involves the local clan lords. It is intricate, but we can only face up to it. Guangzhou is our starting point. We will start from here to learn lessons and sum up experience for the more arduous and difficult tasks in the future. Only when we have a firm foothold can we climb. Higher. As 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.It is the first time to visit Guangzhou.Arriving suddenly, it is obvious that the case in front of him has been raised to an unprecedented height.

Zhao Manxiong nodded at Wumu to signal the start of the meeting. Wumu didn't rush to speak, but lowered his head and flipped through the two pages of documents in his hand, which caused a brief silence in the meeting room.

After a while, Wu Mu raised his head and said: "The anti-Song forces headed by Liang Cunhou in Guangzhou have been hiding in the dark since we seized power in Guangzhou. You have already understood the general situation in the materials issued before, but before we can only Obtaining scattered information is like a broken jigsaw 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."

Speaking of this, Wu Mu got up and went to the blackboard in front of the meeting room. He picked up the chalk from the low table next to him and drew a square on the blackboard and wrote the personnel in the square, then said: "This is the first block. Jigsaw puzzles and recruitment of personnel. On the one hand, Liang Cunhou established the Yuyuan Society, and recruited scholars who were dissatisfied with the policies of the Song regime in Australia as the backbone to conduct research and interpretation of our policies. In addition, I believe that some of them should have indirectly participated in " They also sometimes do some work of compiling and exposing posts and concocting rumors. On the other hand, they search for hostile elements and their families who have had hostile acts against us in Australia and Song Dynasty and have been suppressed by us in the countryside. These people have often been attacked by us, and some have even been repeatedly attacked. They are stubborn in their thinking and have a firm will to resist. As the backbone, I know that there was a scholar surnamed Huang from Lingao who once contacted Liang Cunhou to recruit so-called righteous men in the countryside for him. These people formed an anti-Song alliance with Liang Cunhou with the same purpose, but the organization structure was relatively loose There is no unified leadership."

After Wumu finished speaking, he drew a square on the blackboard to write public opinion, put it together with the first square, and said: "This is the second puzzle piece to create public opinion. Liang Cunhou and his team have been collecting our related public publications. , can also achieve limited understanding and comprehension of some of our policies, and many of our policies deprive and restrict the rights of the old ruling class. The regime spreads rumors, slanders, bewitches, and slanders, and prints relevant content as revealing posts and distributes them secretly, creating dissatisfaction and antagonism among the gentry class, and through aristocratic families, gentry, and clan elders, they control and influence the citizens and peasants. , tenants and other groups of people carry out radiation propaganda, deny the orthodoxy of Australia and Song Dynasty's governance, create an image of us as anti-thieves and puppet regimes, promote the words that we will leave after we get a vote, and the tail of a rabbit will not grow, and spread some words like "people have a heart, Reactionary slogans such as "Heaven has eyes, a thief's country is not long-term", "A loyal heart shines on the sun and the moon, red gallbladder forges the universe, cuts off hair that is not my kind, sweeps away demons with a sword" and other reactionary slogans use public opinion to shake our ruling foundation at the grassroots level , while 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 and manpower, it is difficult to sink propaganda work, which temporarily gives them a chance Moreover, as far as the actual situation is concerned, many noble and gentry families in the old Guangzhou government are more or less dissatisfied and misunderstood our policies, and they are more or less hostile. Most of the big households adopt a wait-and-see approach attitude. That is, not to participate in their conspiracy, but also silent about it, wanting to see how good we are, and also intending to increase the difficulty of our governance and increase the price of our redemption in the future, "

Wu Mu paused for a while, took the blackboard and drew a third square to write information on, and spliced ​​it with the second square, saying: "This is the third square, intelligence collection. From the information we have now, Liang Cunhou collects information. 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 data analysis from public sources, which is especially true for usurpers who lack a sense of confidentiality. There is only a small amount of information It needs to be obtained through covert means, which is what we call black intelligence. Of course, this is for us. At this stage, our enemy does not yet have such capabilities. But Liang Cunhou is different. He has conducted more in-depth investigations on us. Research, we initially realized the importance of intelligence, but we underestimated the enemy's ability to learn, and sometimes the review of various publications was not rigorous enough, and many sensitive data and content were directly written in various official documents and books, which is for the The enemy provided convenience. The second is to take advantage of the establishment of the Guangzhou Municipal Government to retain a large number of old officials to infiltrate our government departments, and these people have inherited the work style of usurping the Ming government. Or sell it to Liang Cunhou and others, in order to get paid sometimes only a few cents, and 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 asking. Some information such as administrative layout, military deployment, material departure and arrival, etc. And the intelligence compilation and analysis collection called "Tianqing Guangwenlu" should be obtained from both public channels and secretly collected by himself. It will play a big role in the hands of people with ulterior motives and who know us better. Liang Cunhou is the first enemy who faces 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 military power. A few days ago we found through tracking what Liang Cunhou called a stronghold in Guangzhou that Wudi arranged. During the tracking process, the target was changed once. By multiplying, turning back twice, changing paths multiple times, and setting up support personnel, they have some awareness of anti-reconnaissance, which shows that they have some understanding of our reconnaissance and working methods. Now it can be confirmed that there are eight people in this stronghold. Obviously, this number is With consideration, too few people will lead to insufficient strength, and too many will make it difficult to manage. After monitoring this stronghold for several days, we learned through tracking and monitoring that they have another stronghold in the city, which is mainly used for emergency hiding In addition, through their recent procurement, 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 their procurement volume is far less than that in the stronghold. It can be consumed by personnel. But it is not the same as what we originally thought. These people are not directly under Liang Cunhou’s orders, but his allies. They are independent and independent, and they can exist independently once they leave the Liang family. We have mastered this part The situation is not sufficient, but it is speculated that there should not be many of them, not more than 100, otherwise the financial resources will be difficult to support. These people usually do some wet work for the Liang family and collect information. Once the opportunity arises, they will be the backbone of the volunteer army. , organizing rebellion and riots, these people have a certain understanding of the law enforcement methods of the Australia-Song regime, once they engage in anti-Song activities, the harm they will bring will be greater than that of ordinary hostile elements, and they are also our key targets this time."

After a short pause, Wu Mu used chalk to connect the four squares, drew a big circle to enclose 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 nodded him with his hand, and the person said: "Director Wu, why don't we take down that stronghold now and arrest Liang Cunhou directly?"

Wu Mu nodded and said: "This kind of armed gangs are bandits when they gather, and they are for the people when they disperse. They are highly mobile. Once they take away the strongholds in the city and let them notice, most of the outside of the city are likely to be reorganized." It is even more unfavorable for us to hide it among the people and become a hidden unstable factor. We hope that through a unified action, we can destroy this armed group at one time and completely eliminate hidden dangers. During the few days of surveillance, we analyzed them There should be a connection with the outside of the city. According to the clues provided by Lesson [-], the surveillance object has relatively frequent contacts with private money dealers inside and outside the city, and regularly converts silver taels into banknotes and silver dollars. It is speculated that it is a maintenance fee for people outside the city , combined with the information from a while ago, this gang is not supported by the Liang family, but has other sources of income. 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 this chapter)