Section 5: The departing and the coming
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 that 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 Chen Gongshu gave him in the cabinet.
Seeing that Zuo Zhong was unwilling to talk, everyone did not force it. Some people were even secretly happy. Since even Zuo Zhong could be called to talk, then they are better than Zuo Zhong, so wouldn't they have a great chance.
When Chen Gongshu returned to the office, he stood respectfully in front of Dai Chunfeng: "I'm reporting to you, Zuo Chong didn't say much after he returned."
"I understand. You can go down. Remember to seize the time and properly handle the matter with Shen Zhong." Dai Chunfeng didn't even 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 students for the No. A training class, especially those who ranked high in professional courses and operational skills, almost all of them were recruited.
These selected people are also tight-lipped. Anyone who asks will tell them that it is an ordinary training class, related to their future prospects, and no one dares to publicize it.
But the most shocking thing is that Zuo Zhong, who was in the same period as them, was actually 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.
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Then some people left and some stayed. Among them, Ban Jun went to the Anti-Smuggling Division 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 real people do not show their faces. The anti-smuggling police under the anti-smuggling department were just established last year to manage all maritime and land-based anti-smuggling operations within the Republic of China. They are risk-free and the profits are high. It is a good place to go.
The Police Department is also a good place for trainees to go in without breaking a sweat. It is regarded as an agency that manages people. Some students joked that in the future, their merit-keeping and promotion will depend on Xing Hanliang.
Naturally, Zuo Zhong would not be jealous that his two friends had a good place to go. The secret service would become more and more widely known over time. It was absurd for an intelligence agency to be so famous, but one could also see its power.
Before leaving, the three of them said goodbye in a tavern outside the police academy. After two years of friendship as classmates, now that they are separated, the three of them are 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 was 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 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 is normal to have a few old officers who are 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 what Lao Ban said was free and easy, but in fact he was also 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 everything, 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 suppress them, but Zuo Zhong knows that showing your hand is equivalent to leaking, which is troublesome!
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 are what Zuo Zhong is thinking about.
In the days that followed, 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 had to accompany Chen Gongshu to complete the plan to imitate a Japanese town. The two of them even 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 was a top priority and would yield quick results.
The two people agreed on the location. Hui Province met the conditions previously proposed by Zuo Zhong and was not far from Jinling, making it convenient for the Secret Service to supervise the plan.
However, Zuo Zhong and Chen Gongshu had different opinions on the selection of instructors. Zuo Zhong believed that the candidates should be selected from families of businessmen or small intellectuals, while Chen Gongshu thought that the candidates should be selected from families of military and political cadres of the Guo Party.
After several discussions, Chen Gongshu still insisted: "Shen Zhong, the first requirement for intelligence work is loyalty, and the selection of instructors is of great importance. Businessmen are unjust for profit, and small intellectuals have narrow vision, so it is not the best choice."
Zuo Zhong shook his head: "Brother Gongshu, if you think so, do the Japanese think so too? What if there are Japanese intelligence officers among the officials' children studying in Japan? Let them participate, wouldn't it mean telling them the plan directly?
The Japanese.”
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 were a Japanese intelligence agent, such a person would indeed be worth wooing.
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, so 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 after a lot of stumbling, and Zuo Zhong discovered that Chen Gongshu was indeed a figure who left his name in history. This man had great ideas and abilities in organizational structure, personnel allocation and other tasks.
As time passed, students from several special training classes arrived. Some of these people were recruited, and some were deceived. In short, the sources were very complicated.
Dai Chunfeng specially attended the opening ceremony. Only then did the students below know the nature of their future work. Dai Chunfeng also 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 families 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 is 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.
"After the special training class, your principal, Wang Gupan, will be in charge. 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 said that, he took Chen Gongshu back to Jinling.
Only then did Zuo Zhong relax 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 this 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.
Moreover, the so-called action techniques in the textbooks of the special training class are a bit funny, or at least impractical. Whether students love to learn or not will not affect their real actions in the future.
As for the intelligence master Dai Chunfeng mentioned, Zuo Zhong also saw him, and he was indeed a powerful figure.
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. He was really good at teaching. He was good at combining boring theoretical lectures with vivid examples so that the trainees could understand them.
For example, when he lectured on the theory of secret agents, he started from the story of three visits to the thatched cottage in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", explaining why Zhuge Liang waited until Liu Bei's third visit to see him, and explained the relationship between the various aspects of intelligence collection, research and application.
The novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" narrated from his mouth became an image textbook on the theory of agents, and the students unknowingly learned the basic theories of agents.
The more Zuo Chong studied, the more profound he felt about the intelligence profession. He tried asking that person some difficult questions, and that person was willing to help and could always give perfect answers.
You really can't underestimate the people of the world. Zuo Zhong feels that this person is thoughtful and has an overall view. Even in modern society, he will definitely become a business hero.
Later, Zuo Chong found out that this man was named Yu Xingle, and he was the director of the East China District of the Secret Service.
Yu Xingle often marveled at Zuo Zhong's whimsical ideas. The two of them had a good relationship, so Yu Xingle told Zuo Zhong about his origins, and Zuo Zhong was shocked after hearing this.
In his early years, Yu Xingle went to France to major in chemistry and mechanics. 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 - he privately took gold from the army and became a deserter.
Zuo Zhong was a little speechless. This was really a waste of watermelons but sesame seeds. However, Yu Xingle's regrets about this matter were revealed between the lines.
Chapter completed!