"Uncle is still very good. He can tell the truth in just one point. I didn't expect that there are so many twists and turns." Ye Fan sighed, "But, uncle, you were the former chief of the Lingnan Military Region. You should have many acquaintances."
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"It's hard for me to come forward this time, because I've already come out once about Shihao's matter. If I come forward again, it will be easy for me to lose my voice and give people a feeling of ignorance. It's enough to sell this old face once.
, if you sell it again, the price will drop. I will be responsible for the affairs of the department, and you can figure out other ways." Qiao Hengshan shook his head.
The people from the military side who came to Group A were quickly adjusted.
January 28, 2008.
Members of the Standing Committee of Group A, led by Comrade Gong Kaihe, solemnly welcomed the Military Committee and the group in the conference room.
The person leading the team this time was Vice Chairman Lin Jiangzhong, and he was accompanied by the person in charge of human resources.
Comrades Lan Yuanjin and Yang Guotao were transferred away, and the new ones were Lieutenant General Dong Lin from the General Staff Headquarters and Lieutenant General Chen Changming from the General Political Department.
Both Lieutenant General Dong Lin and Comrade Chen Changming once served as deputy commanders of the lower military regions, and the time they were transferred to the headquarters was not particularly long.
Both comrades are not very old, just approaching 50 years old, which is considered young among such high-level generals.
Of course, the comrades in Group A have to be excluded. Group A has a larger quota of generals, and there are more major generals. Moreover, these comrades are not old, about forty years old. There are also many major generals like 35-6.
If this were in an ordinary army, this would be an incredible promotion speed. This is because the missions of Group A are highly dangerous and the missions have high gold content.
Therefore, the time interval between promotions is relatively close, which is incomparable to ordinary armies. After Lin Jiangzhong made the announcement, he briefly spoke and took the people away. There was still time below. Comrade Gong Kaihe hosted a brief
meeting.
After the meeting, we had a light meal at the Group A headquarters, which was a welcome banquet for the two comrades.
In the afternoon, Ye Fan took a nap in the lounge in the office. Around two o'clock, he went straight to Gong Kaihe's office.
"When will we hold a meeting to discuss the recommendations for Comrade Zheng Fang, Comrade Dai Cheng, and Comrade Chen Jun?" Gong Kaihe said directly after asking Ye Fan to sit on the swivel chair opposite.
"Should we first seek everyone's opinions on this matter and make a preliminary plan? Then all comrades will nominate a candidate. Finally, the human resources department of the group will conduct a preliminary selection, and finally a few comrades will be left.
Is this the previous procedure for discussion at the boss meeting?" Ye Fan asked.
"Haha, that's roughly the case. This is a matter of organizational procedures. Generally, the matter must be raised internally first, for example, at a team meeting.
There are several vacancies and what kind of comrades are needed. The comrades who meet the conditions will then be selected by the organizational department for preliminary selection.
Finally, the boss discussed it, and then submitted it to the boss for approval after approval." Gong Kaihe said with a smile.
"Team Gong, I'm still a little confused about how many people there are in our team. I heard before that there are less than 40 official team members. Now what's the specific situation? You have to give me a detailed information about each comrade.
." Ye Fan said.
"I have to give this to you, but haven't you been busy reporting everywhere these past two days? How can I give it to you when you haven't even joined the team? Moreover, the Olympics will open in just half a year. What's the work on the other side?
That's the focus." Gong Kaihe smiled and said, "Of course, I hope you can take care of both ends and take up major issues in the group."
"Gong Group, you can talk to me about this situation first." Ye Fan said.
"Actually, Comrade Lin Dongguo knows best about the situation of the people in the team. Ask him to come over and let's discuss it. Moreover, we also need to discuss with him about the positions and recommended candidates." Gong Kaihe said. He called him and he was soon in charge.
General Lin Dongguo, who was responsible for the personnel work of Group A, came in a hurry.
Lin Dongguo is the deputy secretary of the party committee and deputy leader of Group A. He is in charge of the personnel files and materials in the group and plays the same role as the party and mass secretary of the government department.
"Team Leader Ye. This is the material you need. The files of all the comrades in our group are in it. This includes information on peripheral special forces like the Cheetahs, as well as the bases, scientific research institutes, etc. of the subordinates in the group.
." Lin Dongguo handed the document bag to Ye Fan with a serious look.
After Ye Fan stretched out his hands to take it, Gong Kaihe looked serious and said: "Comrade Ye Fan, the lifeline of the team is in this bag.
The reason why Group A can maintain such confidentiality is because all the information of these team members is top secret.
It can be said that currently only three of us comrades in the group have permission to read it. Outside, only Chairman Tang has this permission, and no other comrades have the right to know.
Including comrades from the Government Affairs Council. Of course, for the core leaders, they only know the situation of the core senior leaders in the group.
They don't know much about the details. Unless it involves a certain decision or something, they will know a small part of the secret.
This material must not be taken away from the headquarters. After you read it, immediately lock it in the secret data room. If you want to read it, you can directly check it through the computer in the secret data room with permission."
"I understand." Ye Fan nodded solemnly.
Ye Fan spent an hour reading through it, and his heart suddenly surged. Because Boss Ye has eagle eyes, he is very fast. Otherwise, ordinary people would not be able to read through it if they didn't have half a day.
"Oh, I used to be a little superficial." Ye Fan sighed and carefully placed the materials on the table.
"Hahaha, this is normal. In the past, you did not have permission to view these materials, so you only saw the tip of the iceberg. Moreover, for the confidentiality of the organization, basically even the core team members can only know about the comrades of a small group.
Moreover, you only have the right to know when you encounter a mission." Gong Kaihe said with a smile.
"Yes, I have led a team on several missions before. At that time, there were only twenty or thirty comrades who cooperated with me.
I thought this was the only one in the team. I didn't expect the number to be so huge. There were actually around eighty core members.
Compared to what I expected, the number had doubled. And there were as many as six peripheral organizational units like the Cheetahs.
There are still several military bases dedicated to our Group A. Even the armed police of the public security department actually has peripheral troops dedicated to our Group A.
According to this statistics, there are no less than 20,000 people. The number is indeed not small. No wonder the superiors have laid off more than one billion people every year, and the economy is still stretched.
There are so many personnel, and they are all the elites of the Republic. Their salary is about twice as high as that of ordinary army soldiers.
Especially for our regular team members, their basic salary is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of ordinary soldiers.
Coupled with the well-equipped equipment, rewards and high subsidies when going on missions, as well as high pensions for seriously injured personnel and fallen comrades, it is indeed difficult to control the general forever.
It’s hard to have no money.” Ye Fan said, feeling that the burden on his shoulders was much heavier.
"Well, General Ji knows the situation in the group best. Therefore, some comrades below sometimes don't understand and think that our group is extremely rich, but Comrade Yong Yong is so stingy. Some comrades even say that he is a digger, but there is nothing he can do about it.
Ah, if we don't pick it up, we won't be able to develop normally. They don't know the true details of our group." Gong Kaihe sighed.
"Group A is a high-risk special unit. Every year comrades die, and every year comrades are seriously injured and withdraw.
Moreover, if you go out on a mission, the money spent on each official team member will be spent with gold bricks.
Don't talk about anything else, a set of ordinary equipment they carry costs about two to three million. And some special equipment can easily cost tens of millions.
The team has been clamoring for reform for a long time. It is not easy to expand the scale, increase the strike capability of our A team and the ability to keep secrets and protect national security." Lin Dongguo was also a little distressed.
“The stall is big, we in Group A have a lot of people, but we are facing people from all over the world.
Large countries have to station their branches abroad, and a branch station must have five or six comrades. One to two regular team members, plus outside miscellaneous personnel.
The tasks performed by these comrades are all expensive tasks. How much money does a sub-station spend every year?
Moreover, if there are five or six people in one sub-station, there are as many sub-stations in the world. In total, there are thousands of people.
Big countries like the United States, Russia, France, and Japan have more than a dozen sub-stations. And where are the bases?
The annual cost of a Cheetah unit plus training ground is no less than seven or eight billion. There is also the scientific research funding of the science and technology group.
Even the Shenlong M2 submarine costs us close to hundreds of millions a year in maintenance fees and mission expenses.
The total allocation of more than one billion is indeed not enough. The allocation has to be recovered every year. But as soon as it is increased, we will have to listen.
Some comrades criticized our group as a gold-eating monster, and they were right.
This is indeed the case. You see, the battle of Snake Eagle Island cost us hundreds of millions of activity funds. There are too many aspects." Gong Kaihe said.
"Gong Group, I think funding is the biggest stumbling block restricting our development. The core giants should be aware of these situations, right?
Can we ask them to increase investment in Group A? Can’t the problem be solved with more than one billion a year?
We need to increase investment at one time. For example, give us 3 billion, so that we don’t have to make a second investment.
It can also effectively prevent people from gossiping, right?" Ye Fan said.
"Increase investment. In fact, we increase funds every year. But how much can be increased, giving you an extra 100 million a year will be overwhelming.
If you take too big a step all at once, won't other comrades stare at you? Even among the Big Nine, it's impossible to have a unified opinion.
Some comrades even suggested that Group A and National Security were a waste of duplication. Moreover, the organization of Group A was too bloated and there was no need to have so many bases and peripheral troops.
It is recommended that part of Group A be eliminated and directly merged into the national security department, such as conducting intelligence searches, while the other part is merged into the military system.
For example, attack missions. In fact, it can be merged with the Military Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters.
There is also the mysterious second bureau, etc. In terms of financial resources, some can also be allocated to local finance." Lin Dongguo sneered.