Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 592 Organization System
In a few months, Lin Baiguang used Ma Benyuan's local connections and used the account books of the Gou family to blackmail, stepped up his infiltration activities in all the yamen in Qiongzhou Prefecture, and quickly infiltrated most of the yamen.Not only established a network of middle and lower-level figures such as masters, book offices, and yamen servants, but also successfully bought the servants of several major local officials.Now the magistrate of Qiongzhou will know which book he read yesterday as long as he needs it the next day.

"The reason why I said to increase manpower investment in this place is not to increase the standing intelligence personnel. We already have a strong strength in this place, and we have enough energy to ensure the safety of newcomers who lack experience here. Mountain County as a training ground for intelligence officers."

The idea is novel enough.Jiang Shan thought, "Internship in a relatively safe 'enemy-occupied area'?"

"That's right," Lin Baiguang nodded, "Qiongshan County is a microcosm of the local society in the Ming Dynasty. Although it is slightly less prosperous, it is still operated by the government, and the social form is still very representative. Our intelligence personnel, no matter Veterans are still natives, and the experience gained from activities here is more useful than internships in places like Dongmen City, at least they will feel nervous about operating in enemy territory."

"Can you guarantee safety?"

"It's absolutely possible." Lin Baiguang promised, "As long as anyone is caught, I will find a way to get him out-of course it will cost some money."

"Okay, I'll make a note of that."

He went on to say: "I am training two indigenous intelligence officers, and I hoped to select one of them to take over my job in Qiongshan. But recently I found out that it might be very difficult-they are too young, and it will take five or six years to complete the training." 20 years old. It's not that they are not capable enough, but that in Daming a person's age is the key issue in carrying out social activities." He coughed, "It is difficult for people who are too young to gain enough respect and trust. It is easy to be despised. Of course, it doesn’t matter if they are placed in the lower class. If they are businessmen or other professional identities who have contact with the government and gentry, they should be over the age of 25 or six. I hope that the bureau will select a new batch of indigenous intelligence students When you have to pay attention.”

"That's right." Jiang Shan nodded thoughtfully.He thought of the archives he had seen of the completed training courses for Aboriginal intelligence officers—all of them were under the age of 20.

Chen Tianxiong didn't speak for a while, so he interjected at this moment: "I've held several training classes, all of which were to train young people. What's the use of that? You have to be loyal all the time, but you can't do anything with loyalty alone."

Most of the boys and girls in their teens can only work in government agencies, and they can only do some simple errands and inquiring work when they are sent to the outside world.This is not conducive to large-scale activities.

"Also, intelligence training should be focused and must have certain skills." Chen Tianxiong added, "I read their training materials, and they are actually similar to the training content of the State Administration of Political Science and Security—a lot of illegal activities skills. ――It is totally unnecessary. What kind of intelligence personnel do we need? It is nothing more than being able to accurately report the enemy’s movements, numbers, local social conditions, and economic conditions. 90% of these contents are public information, as long as we spend more effort to collect and sort them out That's fine, you don't need to spend a lot of time learning things like stalking, kidnapping, and arson—this is not intelligence gathering, it's intelligence operations.

"My requirements for indigenous intelligence personnel are: they only need to master basic intelligence-gathering skills, counting, know a few words, and it is best to be able to write reports. If not, it is enough to be able to accurately explain what they have seen and heard. Then teach some simple secret work skills, nothing else is needed. And it doesn’t need them to be loyal and tried and tested. Adopting a suitable secrecy and organizational system can make them unable to affect the overall situation even if they are caught or betrayed-low-level intelligence Personnel can be trained according to consumables."

"There are also some cover and survival skills that should be taught." Lin Baiguang added, "Know one or two crafts, or read scriptures and fortune-telling, so that intelligence personnel can use their profession as a cover to flow."

"Of course, it is also possible to train some high-level talents in a targeted manner. But I am opposed to directly training senior intelligence personnel-this so-called system of directly training intelligence elites is not feasible. It should start from ordinary intelligence personnel who have worked for a certain amount of time. Select outstanding members of the intelligence personnel for continuing education." Chen Tianxiong continued to elaborate on his intelligence personnel education theory.

Only such suggestions can be regarded as constructive, and it is really useful to listen to the thoughts of the frontline personnel.Jiang Shan nodded secretly. He had also thought about some of the joints, but he didn't form a system.Now these two speak more comprehensively and systematically than him.

"Well, we will train intelligence personnel according to this plan in the future." Jiang Shan immediately affirmed their suggestion, "Hearing you say it this way, the thinking is more general. It is the comrades on the front line who think comprehensively."

"Where, where." Lin Baiguang said politely.

Jiang Shan saw that the atmosphere of the meeting had become relatively harmonious, and only then did he say: "As for the development of intelligence work, my thinking is as follows:

"We divide intelligence work into two categories. The first category is purposeful, planned, and easy to file and save for future reference, that is, the collection and compilation of stable information in various regions. For example, map surveying, traffic inspection, logistics and economics Situational analysis, property, manpower, political composition and diplomatic tendency, historical evolution, transcripts of residence newspapers and excerpts of important publications, long-term military garrisons, overview of public and large-scale military facilities...etc.

"Archived in the general intelligence database?" Wang Ding drew a few lines in his notebook.

"Yes. The sources of these intelligence can rely on various departments, including institutions such as foreign stations, and can also send specialized personnel to these places to conduct on-the-spot investigations in the name of business and study tours. With the slow development speed of ancient society For example, the data obtained from one survey may not need to be revised for more than ten years.”

"This is too exaggerated——" Lin Baiguang shook his head, "It is still necessary to verify once every two years, especially for traffic conditions and people's sentiments. Now is not a peaceful time. The 17 years of the Chongzhen Dynasty is basically an era of gradual chaos. It's changing very quickly."

"That's roughly what it means." Jiang Shan decided not to entangle him with details, and continued directly, "These data are not only useful to the military department, but also to the economic and industrial departments. They can be opened to inquiries according to the confidentiality level, including the indigenous cadres in the system. It can be queried. This kind of intelligence can be obtained and passed on in an open and semi-open manner, which is different from other intelligence work implementation methods. We don’t need to invest too many professionals, and we can adopt a system of government supervision and private management.”

Jiangshan’s so-called government-supervised private offices are similar to the model of Weiwei Escort established by Guangzhou Station. Various enterprises are set up along traffic arteries and important towns. Most of the staff can be recruited locally instead of dispatched from Lingao, and only a few are dispatched Intelligence personnel do their jobs.

"This kind of enterprise can also provide logistical support, logistics and communication lines for intelligence personnel. It serves multiple purposes." Jiang Shan said, "At the same time, the operation of the enterprise itself can guarantee that it does not need to invest too much financial support. We only need to spend the start-up fee, Then it can be maintained by the company's own profits."

"This is a memorandum I found in the materials I found in the archives of the former Intelligence Committee that I handed over," Wang Ding said. "The date of dispatch is August 1629. It coincides with your thinking."

"Really, why didn't I see it?" Jiang Shan said suddenly.

"A few more boxes of materials were handed over yesterday," Wang Ding explained, "Let's take a look first."

To: Intelligence Documentation Committee

From: Great Library-Historical Materials Research Group, first-level historical data researcher: Yu Eshui
Topic: Yu Eshui's views on the intelligence system and his evaluation of the K/BW/290322.77 memorandum.

confidential!This is the only copy, only for business-related personnel to read!
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Intelligence agencies need supplementary intelligence information. You can refer to Japan's mainland ronin operation. The Lingao organization actively dispatched passionate and loyal ronin groups to actively infiltrate the north and south, and collect intelligence by running schools and opening businesses.

This work is a very specific and huge voluntary work. It requires the indigenous elites who have received strict education to spontaneously feel that it is impossible to realize their dreams step by step within the existing system of Lingao.

… could involve the military, the Political Guard and other relevant agencies and provide critical leadership and operational direction.But do not interfere with its specific business activities.This is a semi-public intelligence agency, which can cooperate with other powerful departments. It is also an in-depth collation of the huge physical books and Ming Dynasty world materials collected by the consulting agency...

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I personally think it is inappropriate for foreign intelligence work to enter into a strong long-range reconnaissance operation too quickly... The size of the special reconnaissance team is not enough to support such a wide range of operations,... the public agency of the intelligence system is responsible for the collection, this kind of staff Traveling field trips are perfectly possible.

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The Military Intelligence Bureau can establish two organizations... One is the inland river and offshore boat assassination team, which will take advantage of the advantages of silent melee weapons in the chaos of pirate river water transportation, causing some enemy leaders to die invisible, and Dutch ghost ships run everywhere; With the support of intelligence personnel and ronin groups in the city, light beheading can be carried out to deter the enemy; the second is to adopt ultra-long-range reconnaissance and search training, the goal is to realize that the light infantry squad can survive in the wilderness in the mountains and forests of southern China to the extent of discovery... then It is the hard scouting of infantry in the mountains, not collecting at night, and arming against bandits and water bandits.The regular army does not need them to fight on the plains. The future of these special armed forces is mainly to wipe out guerrillas and local bandits...

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Lin Baiguang nodded. He was impressed with this material, although not deeply.However, there was no physical organization in the intelligence and data committee at that time, and the Political and Security Administration did not respond very positively in this regard, so the matter was shelved.

"What's going on with this military intelligence bureau?" Jiang Shan became wary of this word.Just a few days after he took over, he realized the chaos of the intelligence system in the crossing group.No wonder Lin Baiguang was not interested in this, and he kept going out to do field work.

“At that time, both the army and the navy proposed to establish a special military intelligence bureau, and then someone wrote a special memorandum on the organizational structure of the military intelligence bureau.” Lin Baiguang said, “However, this plan consumes too much resources, and the executive committee is not very interested. The matter was put on hold. The second half of Yu Eshui should be about this memorandum."

"and after?"

"There is no later." Lin Baiguang said, "This memo should still be in the files of the Intelligence Resources Committee, you can find it."

Jiang Shan found that Lin Baiguang and Chen Tianxiong were not willing to discuss this matter in depth, so he decided to put this matter aside for the time being and talk about his "government-supervised and privately run" intelligence system.

"...Yu Eshui's thinking is broader than mine." Jiang Shan said, "According to his thinking, we can expand our channels to a wider range. It is not necessary to run a business, but we can also run religious facilities or run schools."

"In this regard, we can cooperate deeply with the Religious Affairs Office." Wang Ding said, "Didn't Daoist Zhang already express his position?"

"Hmph, if you want to cooperate with him, you have to help him apply for personnel—this is the most troublesome thing for him." Lin Baiguang smiled, "You really think that Daoist Zhang sincerely cooperated and provided us with a free lunch."

Wang Ding said: "It's only natural to ask others to contribute and give some benefits."

"If his new Taoism is really as strong as he brags about, I think it is right to apply for some personnel for him. Everyone will benefit." Chen Tianxiong said, "People like monks and Taoists can openly run around. They don’t pay much attention either. Spreading rumors is also their forte.”

"As for this kind of dispatched intelligence agency, I personally think it's best not to form an open chain or semicolon model, so as to avoid an agency being exposed and then being implicated and wiped out." Jiang Shan said. There are opinions on the big chain system.But let’s not talk about this point of view.At this stage, they still need Qiwei's help. In the future, he plans to gradually establish a system by himself-or as Yu Eshui said, "Black Dragon Club".

"As for personnel management, we can learn from Zhao Manxiong's investigative network system," Jiang Shan said.Zhao Manxiong sent a memorandum after the official establishment of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, informing and explaining the establishment of the enemy reconnaissance network by the General Administration of Political Security in counties surrounding Lingao, and stated that this resource "can be shared in some way. ".

Although Jiang Shan was dissatisfied with this behavior, but now he has few soldiers and no achievements, so he can only swallow his anger.Furthermore, the instructions given to him by the executive committee clearly stated that there is no need to devote too much energy to the intelligence work on the main island of Hainan Island.Moreover, the State Administration of Political Security has only deployed its reconnaissance network to a few counties near Lingao, and has not deployed it on a large scale.There is no point in arguing with the State Security Bureau on this.What's more, he still relies on the State Administration of Political Science and Security to provide professional guidance and business cooperation in many aspects.The organizational structure of this reconnaissance network was obtained from Wu Mu, the director of the General Office of the Political Security Bureau, who also enthusiastically expressed his willingness to provide teacher support in the training of intelligence personnel.

The reconnaissance network has one reconnaissance instructor in each area, and there are 1 to 2 reconnaissance groups under it. Each group has 4 people, and one person is the team leader. When it grows to 3 people, it is divided into two groups.There is no horizontal contact between the instructors, and there is no horizontal contact between the team leader and the team leader. Vertical reporting and guidance by level is implemented.The reconnaissance instructor directs the reconnaissance work in the whole area, collects the reports of the team leaders and feeds back the information through the traffic station.

Jiang Shan then talked about the "second type of work" in intelligence work.That is, the use of undercover operations is aimed at classified information and uncertain events, such as hidden secret agents who have penetrated into the core of the enemy's regime.Their value is relatively high.This kind of undercover personnel adopts the single-line mode of traffic officers to communicate directly.Do not have any contact with the local scouting network.

"Personally, I think the personnel lurking in the deep sea are of little value." Chen Tianxiong directly objected unceremoniously, "It will take more than ten years for us to overthrow Daming at most. What was in the last batch didn't mean much to us."

"At least you can grasp the opponent's strategic trends."

"I don't deny this, but the cost of reaching this level is too disproportionate to the benefits." Chen Tianxiong reminded Jiang Shan, "We know almost nothing about the Ming Dynasty's system, and the people who travel through the world are even more like the ancients. There is no similarity at all, and it is simply whimsical to penetrate into the enemy's interior and mix with high-level and core members. Even if some veterans go crazy and go undercover, I will oppose it-this is death."

Lin Baiguang coughed: "It's not enough to die, it's still valuable to penetrate into the enemy's interior. Of course, it's probably impossible to get into the high-level. Personally, I don't think too much about looking for opportunities to penetrate into the enemy's interior. Don't give up. It is still useful to have a few hidden agents or connections who have infiltrated the enemy's system." He reminded, "For example, our Tang Seng plan. The preliminary preparations for this plan have been completed."

"The difficulty of Tang Seng's plan is that it is too difficult for a modern person to pretend to be an official of the Ming Dynasty. It is tantamount to re-educating and shaping this person," Chen Tianxiong said. "If it fails, the loss will be heavy."

"Is the Tang Monk plan still being implemented?" Jiang Shan has seen this action plan in piles of files, and the materials collected in it are very rich.There is a special report written by Beiwei on staff travel, and various social surveys at Leizhou Station, but there is no follow-up.

"Theoretically speaking, the Tang Seng Project has never been cancelled," Chen Tianxiong said, "The question is who will be the imposter bandit?"

"Yes, and according to the plan above, after the end of the first five-year plan, Leizhou will be in the pocket, and it is a bit redundant to pretend to be the magistrate."

(End of this chapter)