Cicada Moving

Chapter 5 Leaving and Arriving

 After Zuo Chong returned to the dormitory, a circle of people immediately gathered around him to inquire about information.

"Did the family provide a way for you to be the first to be interviewed? What did the new principal and the special correspondent say to you?" Xing Han's conscience was full of curiosity.

"It's nothing, I just asked a few questions. Don't worry, there will be news soon." After Zuo Zhong finished speaking, he put the book given to him by Chen Gongshu into the cabinet.

Seeing that Zuo Zhong was unwilling to speak, everyone did not force it. Some people were even secretly happy. Since even Zuo Zhong could be called to talk, wouldn't they have a great chance of being better than Zuo Zhong?

 Chen Gongshu returned to the office and stood respectfully in front of Dai Chunfeng: "I'm reporting to you. Zuo Chong didn't say much after he returned."

"I understand, you go down, remember to seize the time and deal with the matter properly with Shen Zhong." Dai Chunfeng did not raise his head. Zuo Zhong was a smart man, how could he make such a public statement.

In fact, as Zuo Zhong said, the police academy soon began to select the first batch of trainees for the No. A training class, especially those who ranked high in professional courses and operational skills, and almost all of them were recruited.

These selected people are also tight-lipped. No matter who asks, they will say that it is an ordinary training class and it is related to the future. No one dares to publicize it.

But the most shocking thing is that Zuo Zhong, who was in the same period as them, was appointed as the operations instructor of the training class. This is simply a big joke. It can be seen that it doesn’t matter if you don’t participate in this special training class, which makes those who are not selected put down. Heartbroken.

Next, some people left and some stayed. Among them, Ban Jun went to the Anti-Smuggling Section under the General Taxation Department, and Xing Hanliang went to the Central Police Agency of the Police Department of the Ministry of Interior.

Zuo Zhong lamented that the real person did not show his face. The anti-smuggling police under the anti-smuggling department was just established last year to manage all maritime and land-based anti-smuggling operations within the Republic of China. There was no risk and the profits were high. It was a first-rate place.

The Police Department is also a good place for trainees to break their heads. It is regarded as an agency that manages people. Some students joked that in the future, their merit-recording and promotion will depend on Xing Hanliang.

Zuo Zhong naturally wouldn't be jealous that his two friends had a good place to go. The secret service would become more and more famous as time went by. It was ridiculous for an intelligence agency to be so famous, but the power within it could also be seen.

　　Before they separated, the three of them said goodbye in a tavern outside the police academy. After two years of friendship as classmates, now that they were separated, the three of them were a little depressed.

Seeing this, Ban Jun, as the big brother, first raised his glass and said: "We brothers now have a place to go. This is a good thing. Besides, we are not far apart. We can just get together when the time comes. Come on, cheers."

Zuo Zhong and Xing Hanliang felt better after hearing this. The three of them raised their glasses and drank the wine in one gulp. Everyone talked about their expectations for the future, and the atmosphere became much better.

When he got drunk, Xing Hanliang asked Ban Jun: "Old Ban, where did you get such a hard connection to be able to go to the Anti-Smuggling Division? Even if I have a distant uncle who is the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he would not be able to go to such a good place."

 Ban Jun laughed, patted the table and said, "Where did I get the connections? My old officer knew the situation at my home and said a few words of help."

Oh, Zuo Zhong and Xing Hanliang suddenly realized that the army always pays more attention to human relations and friendship than other places. Lao Ban was born in the military, and it was normal to have a few old officers who were doing well.

The three of them drank until the moon reached the treetops and staggered back to the dormitory. When Zuo Zhong woke up the next day, they found that Lao Ban and Xing Hanliang had left.

It seems that Lao Ban said he was free and easy, but in fact he felt reluctant to give up. Zuo Zhong lay on the bed bored and looked up at the roof.

It's not easy to be an action instructor. Not to mention those classmates who know the basics, those mid-level military and police cadres, and the proud students of the university, none of them are fuel-efficient.

If you want to convince them, the best way is to show your hand to calm them down, but Zuo Zhong knows that showing your hand is equivalent to leaking, what a worry!

As for the sign-in system, there has been no movement at all these days. I'm afraid I can't count on it. It seems that I can only start with new ideas. New ideas, Zuo Zhong said thoughtfully.

In the following days, Zuo Zhong held the book in his hand and gestured all day long. Others saw him and didn't know what he was doing. They just thought he was extremely happy.

In addition, Zuo Zhong also had to accompany Chen Gongshu to perfect the plan to imitate a Japanese town. The two of them also gave the plan an unrelated name, the "canned" plan.

Zuo Zhong proposed to first establish an experimental camp in the mountainous areas of Hui Province and give priority to training intelligence personnel targeting Japan. This is a top priority and will yield quick results.

 The two people agreed on the location. Hui Province met the conditions previously proposed by Zuo Zhong. At the same time, it was not far from Jinling, making it convenient for the Secret Service to supervise the plan.

However, Zuo Zhong and Chen Gongshu had different views on the selection of instructors. Zuo Zhong believed that businessmen or small intellectual families should be selected, while Chen Gongshu thought that the selection should be from families of military and political cadres of the Guo Party.

After several discussions, Chen Gongshu still insisted: "Be careful, intelligence work requires loyalty first and foremost, and the selection of instructors is of great importance. Businessmen are greedy for profit, and small intellectuals have narrow vision, so they are not the best choices."

Zuo Zhong shook his head: "Brother Gongshu, if you think so, do the Japanese think so too? What if there are also Japanese intelligence officers among the officials' children studying in Japan? Let them participate, wouldn't it mean to tell them the plan directly? Chen Gongshu deliberately refuted how a relative of a party-state cadre could be a Japanese agent, but if he thought about it carefully, if he was a Japanese intelligence officer, such a person would indeed be worth recruiting.

Zuo Zhong finally said: "And in the canned plan, those instructors will have to live in the base for several years. Do you think the relatives of those party and government officials will be willing?"

He knew the virtues of those people very well. Chen Gongshu decided to listen to Zuo Zhong's suggestion. If all the instructors were gone by then, the Secret Service would really become a joke.

The plan was completed with stumbling blocks. Zuo Zhong discovered that Chen Gongshu was indeed a figure who left his name in history. This person had great ideas and abilities in organizational structure, personnel allocation and other work.

As time went by, students from several special training classes arrived. Some of these people were recruited, some were deceived. In short, their origins were very complicated.

Dai Chunfeng specially attended the opening ceremony. Only then did the students know the nature of their future work. Dai Chunfeng said that they would be promoted quickly and that the salary would be enough. They could not wait to get involved in intelligence work immediately.

After the ceremony, Dai Chunfeng specially called Zuo Zhong and told him: "Shen Zhong, I have already seen the canned plan. There is an unstable part in it. The family members of the instructors must be moved away together, so as to stabilize people's hearts and make it easier to control."

Zuo Zhong said respectfully: "The student was negligent, but teacher, you see far."

Thinking that the loophole he deliberately left had been discovered, otherwise how could he show Shangfeng's far-sightedness? Chen Gongshu on the side was convinced by him.

“From now on, your principal, Wang Gupan, will be in charge of the special training class. After the special training class, you will join the headquarters and I will personally award you a title. You must work hard.” After Dai Chunfeng finished speaking, he took Chen Gongshu back to Jinling.

Zuo Zhong finally relaxed completely. He could not relax for a moment in front of this old fox.

However, after the special training class officially started, Zuo Zhong felt a lot of pressure again, especially after the students in the same period leaked his details. The students chatted and slept in his class.

 Other instructors were too lazy to take care of this matter. Only principal Wang Gupan knew that Dai Chunfeng valued Zuo Zhong and kept an eye on the students in class several times, thus ensuring the basic teaching order.

Zuo Zhong saw it but was not panicked. The special training had just begun, and the teaching content was all knowledge from books. It was not yet time for him to show off his skills.

Furthermore, the so-called action techniques in the special training class textbooks are a bit funny, or at least impractical. Whether students like to learn or not will not affect their actual actions in the future.

As for the intelligence expert Dai Chunfeng mentioned, Zuo Zhong also saw him, and he was indeed a powerful person.

This person came quietly. After briefly understanding the teaching progress, it was decided that he would give lectures on agent theory, covert carry, chemical communications, poisons, anesthesia and other courses.

Zuo Zhong attended his class. This person is really good at teaching. He is good at combining boring theoretical lectures with vivid examples so that the trainees can understand them.

For example, when he lectures on the theory of secret agents, he starts from the story of three visits to the thatched cottage in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". He explains why Zhuge Liang waited until Liu Bei's third visit to see him, and explains the relationship between the collection, research and application of intelligence.

 The novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was narrated from his mouth and became an image textbook on the theory of agents. The students unknowingly learned the basic theories of agents.

The more Zuo Zhong studied, the more profound he felt about the intelligence profession. He tried asking that person some difficult questions, and the person was willing to help and could always give perfect answers.

You really can't underestimate the people of the world. Zuo Zhong felt that this man was thoughtful and had an overall view. Even in modern society, he would definitely become a business hero.

Later, Zuo Chong found out that this man's name was Yu Xingle, and he was the director of the East China District of the Secret Service.

Yu Xingle often praised Zuo Zhong for his fantastic ideas. The two of them got along well, so Yu Xingle told Zuo Zhong about his origins, and Zuo Zhong was shocked after hearing this.

Yu Xingle went to France to study chemistry and mechanics in his early years. After returning to China, he served as a military academy instructor. In 1927, he was sent by the underground party to Sun Yat-sen University to study intelligence business and secret security work. He returned to China and served as Secretary of the Iron Corps.

Zuo Zhong felt that if he had a firm belief and kept going all the way, he would definitely be a textbook figure, and he might even be evaluated by a certain family.

 But during the special period in the past few years, Yu Xingle did a very disgraceful thing—taking the gold from the army privately and becoming a deserter.

Zuo Zhong was a little speechless. This was like losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds. However, Yu Xingle's regrets about this matter were revealed between the lines.

Of course this matter has nothing to do with Zuo Zhong. With a professional agent like Yu Xingle as his teacher, he put all his energy into his studies.

 (End of this chapter)