Ma Jia stood up and announced: "Next, we will conduct a hearing on whether the Political Security Bureau had any dereliction of duty in the Wuzhou incident." He turned around and signaled, "Comrade Zhao Manxiong, please."
Zhao Manxiong had been sitting at the venue for a long time. He was still the same as in the past, wearing a faded black cotton uniform top with a harmless smile. And the vest discovered: Although he is famous and has an outstanding figure,
But in public places, he has a special ability to be invisible that no one can notice.
Zhao Manxiong took a notebook and came to the auditorium and sat down. After the routine oath and identification, the questioning of the Political Security Bureau began.
Since its establishment, the Political Security Bureau has been a thorn in the hearts of many elders. Although the crime of "surveilling elders" has never been verified, for many people, the slogan "everywhere" on the poster is like a
Like the sword of Merkles. Although the political security bureau's spies placed in various industries and departments do not theoretically monitor the elders, there is no doubt that it is not difficult to "incidentally" mention the elders' behavior in the report.
Therefore, there have been calls within the Senate to abolish the Political Security Bureau. However, the effectiveness of the Political Security Bureau is obvious, especially for departments that rely heavily on the political security system to provide intelligence and security work. In addition, the upper level of the Senate has
Most of the Political Security Bureau approved of it, and Zhao Manxiong deliberately maintained a low-key style—Political Security Bureau personnel rarely appeared in public and rarely made high-profile public arrests. Therefore, this call never came true.
But for those veterans who hate the Political Security Bureau the most, it has become their credo that this department must die. For this reason, they spare no effort to find allies everywhere and seize every major incident to find trouble.
It means death is not the end.
The Wuzhou incident obviously gave them another good opportunity. A group of people were gearing up, preparing to directly pull out Zhao Manxiong, the "conspirator in the corner" and "the gray bishop in Bairen City", and criticize him, thereby completely destroying the government.
Protect this dark den.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Manxiong sat down, someone asked to speak.
Zhao Manxiong coughed slightly, turned to his waistcoat, and said: "Comrade Chairman, before the comrades' questions begin, I have a small request that I hope you can approve."
"Please say."
"I think there will probably be a lot of topics for today's questions - I can see that there are quite a few comrades who want to speak. In order to save all of us time, I would like to ask the comrades who are asking questions to speak one by one first to form an outline of the question. Then I will follow
Answer the outline one by one. This can avoid repeated speeches and answers. If you are not satisfied with my answer or have something to add, you can continue to ask questions after I finish answering."
Ma Jia nodded. He was actually quite worried about this old colleague. Because the current situation was unkind to the political and security system, and it was really difficult for Zhao Manxiong to defend himself.
He turned his attention to the attendees: "What do you think?"
Although some people suggested that this was "Zhao Manxiong's trick," most of the elders believed that this request was not excessive - and they really couldn't bear the mess of yelling questions.
The questioning then began. From the first questioner, Zhao Manxiong did not open the notebook in his hand, but listened carefully, nodding slightly from time to time. Other than that, it was difficult to tell what he was thinking. His face
He always maintained an indescribable smile.
There are many people asking questions, but to sum up, the main aspects are concentrated on two points; first, Wuzhou is a key frontline city and has veterans stationed there. Why is there only one political security officer transferred from the Foreign Intelligence Service and no other manpower and material resources?
reinforcements. Luo Yangming, who had no political security experience, could only carry out his work with very little support; secondly, there were serious flaws in the political review of Jiang Yougong, Liu Youyou and others. What else is there about the political review process that has always been controlled by political security?
significance?
Seeing that no one was speaking, Ma Jia asked, "Is there anyone else asking questions?"
He asked three times in a row, and after confirming that no one wanted to speak again, he nodded to indicate that Zhao Manxiong could start.
Zhao Manxiong nodded, opened his notebook slowly, and said in his usual soft tone:
"Comrades, I just summarized that a total of fifteen questions were raised to the Political Security Bureau and asked me to answer them. The specifics are..."
He recounted everyone's questions one by one, and then said, "...I don't know if I left anything out. But that's about it. Everyone should have no objections, right?"
Seeing that no one had objections, Zhao Manxiong continued:
"...Actually, I have summarized these fifteen questions, mainly from two aspects: First, the issue of our power deployment in Wuzhou - it is obviously seriously insufficient. This is a fact, and I have nothing to defend.
The second is the omissions in the political security work that our bureau is responsible for. If I sum it up like this, everyone must have no objections, right? By the way, there is another point about the security work of seniors. Comrade Pan has already said this before. This is not what we
It’s something within the scope of my authority, so I won’t answer.”
"Say it quickly! There are so many nonsense!" Someone directly cursed below.
"Let me first state my position, which is also the position of our Political Security Bureau. We have nothing to defend the two main issues raised by everyone. Indeed, we have zero investment in Wuzhou and have done a good job in political commentary work.
It is also very inadequate, and there are big mistakes. This is all true. The comrades are right to criticize. This is also the direction for our future improvement..."
"I'm afraid you won't need to improve..." Someone interjected sarcastically. Waistcoat banged the hammer with a serious look on his face and shouted: "Quiet! If you have any questions, please speak alone in the second question session!"
"...Although the responsibility lies with us, I also want to remind everyone to master some basic background materials first..." He turned to his vest and said, "Please allow me to distribute some basic materials in the form of slides."
"Can."
The venue turned dark. No one knew what kind of medicine the secret police leader was selling in his gourd. Everyone was whispering. There was a curious expression on their faces. In fact, Ma Jia didn't know what he was doing. He originally thought that Zhao Manxiong was going to use "Stand at attention"
He used the trick of "getting beaten" to get through, but seeing that he was confident enough to distribute the materials, you knew there was a trick behind it.
I went through the information on the slides one by one. It turned out that these materials were all various budget proposals submitted by the Political Security Bureau, reports and applications for the establishment of additional agencies and additional personnel - of course, all of them were rejected without exception.
"...Before launching the Guangdong and Guangxi campaigns, our bureau submitted plans for the political security work in Guangxi and Guangxi to the Senate, including specific plans for establishing branches in various counties and related personnel, as well as draft budgets. However, these plans were rejected after entering the review stage.
All were rejected. Only the budget bill for establishing a branch in Guangzhou and the memorandum on personnel transfer between our bureau and the Foreign Intelligence Bureau were approved. So strictly speaking, except for Guangzhou Special City, there is no formal budget in other cities in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions.
Political security branches." Zhao Manxiong said slowly, "Later, after the occupation of Guangzhou, we proposed a second revised budget, which significantly reduced the size and establishment of each branch. In the relevant supplementary budget review
It was also rejected. Therefore, the branches and personnel of our bureau in various places are all allocated by the personnel of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Since there is no relevant budget, they are temporarily set up in the form of long-term business trips - of course, this
Thanks to the additional subsidies given to our bureau by the local leaders and finance and taxation departments of Guangdong, we can maintain the operation of the political security system in Guangdong at a minimum..."
There was an uproar at the venue. Some of the attendees had participated in the review, and some had not. But a few of them knew it very well, because they were the ones who presided over the campaign of "sniping at the political and security forces to expand their power" at that time, and they were successful.
After rejecting the relevant proposals, they even held a banquet to celebrate. At this moment, they remembered how they ridiculed Zhao Manxiong and others at the celebration banquet as "COSPLAY masters" and "Su fans without political ideas."
Ma Jia was also surprised. He knew about this. At that time, the budget was sniped twice, and he had discussed with Zhao Manxiong how to deal with the follow-up issues. The first was to continue working and strive to pass it in the supplementary review of the budget. But this
It takes time; at that time, a plan was proposed to take the administrative route, and the Guangzhou branch would issue documents for "dispatch", and the funds of the local branches would be subsidized by the local governments. Of course, in fact, the situation faced by local governments was chaotic and they were simply unable to subsidize and cooperate.
, so the local branches are basically "one-person agencies" like Luo Yangming who were transferred from local intelligence officers.
However, this is not a long-term solution, because in theory, political security is under "vertical leadership" and funds belong to the central budget. This is equivalent to "localization". Therefore, Majia's suggestion is to start work as soon as possible and strive to be included in the budget supplement bill.
Passed during deliberation.
However, Deputy Director Zhao's attitude at the time was very ambiguous. Instead of showing disappointment or anger, he said that he "completely understands the emotions of the elders and will slowly carry out persuasion work."
Could it be that he had long realized that a similar situation would happen in Guangdong, so he was ready to retreat at this time? Ma Jia felt nervous - it was very possible!
He thought that after the Lingao incident, Zhao Manxiong often submitted various reports, including increasing budgets, increasing personnel, establishing additional institutions, and various plans and plans for organization and work. Every time the Senate met to review relevant matters
, there will almost always be various applications from the Political Security Bureau, but there is no suspense that most of them are either shot or "partially approved." In fact, the Political Security Bureau has not developed much in these years, both in terms of personnel and