Chapter 1379 The Ministry of Security intervenes
The transfer of many civil affairs affairs from the military to the hands of industry authorities will not only help reduce the burden on the military, but it will also expose many problems. Part of it is caused by differences in professionalism, which objectively cannot be completely avoided; the other part is that, like immigration work, it contains more human factors and the consequences are relatively more troublesome. Although Su Yu and Liu Shang were aware of these problems, the class they were in limited their perspective on the problems. They mainly considered whether their own interests would be affected by them, and did not really realize that these problems had any impact. It might cause trouble for Haihan.
After Chen Yixin visited Su Yu, he returned to the headquarters, where Morgan and Hao Wanqing were already waiting for him.
"How did things go?" Morgan asked first.
Chen Yixin responded: "I have already pressed down on the person concerned for the time being, and there shouldn't be any back-and-forth. I asked carefully and found that this matter did go wrong in Shandong. The officer in charge of immigration in the past was probably trying to make money. I was a bit ruthless, so I didn’t dare to show the registration information of the special immigrants during the handover process. The person involved saw through the trick, and the matter broke out.”
"Part-timers who play tricks with professionals are definitely asking for trouble!" Hao Wanqing continued: "Then should your military conduct a self-examination on this matter first, or should you leave it to me to take over?"
Chen Yixin and Morgan looked at each other, and finally Morgan said: "This matter should be handled internally by us, but since it involves national security, we should follow the rules and let you take over the investigation! If there is any need for the cooperation of the military, If you ask for work, we will try our best to arrange it.”
"Can we get the gendarmerie to cooperate? Other relevant personnel may be picked out from the army in the future. Without the gendarmerie, they can't be taken away." Hao Wanqing looked at Morgan with a smile on his face and asked, but there was no smile in his eyes.
"Okay, I'll go back and say hello to the gendarmerie." Morgan looked unhappy, but he still complied with Hao Wanqing's request.
In fact, it is not a serious crime to get some benefits while supervising and registering immigration information. The immigration industry has formed an industrial chain in Haihan. Where there is business, there will naturally be various transactions. There are all. It was just that this incident was revealed by Su Yu today, which made Hao Wanqing, who was in charge of security work, realize that this might be a security loophole that Haihan had not yet had time to patch, and some work had to be done to make up for the previous omissions.
The previous case of Zheng Ai and others dispatched by the Dengzhou Ming Army attempted to assassinate and kidnap Chen Yixin in Majiazhuang, which made the Ministry of Security realize that there should be a considerable number of Ming Dynasty eyes and ears lurking in the occupied area, so as to provide them with the necessary operations. detailed information. Some of the information related to troop deployment and official staffing status may only be accessible to new immigrants who have obtained identity cards. It would be difficult for the Ministry of Security to dig out all these people, but at least something should be done to prevent Ming's intelligence agents from continuously entering Haihan's occupied areas in Shandong through immigration channels. The top priority was to find loopholes at the border and make up for them. It just so happened that at this juncture, Su Yu, who had come to take over the immigration affairs, revealed that there was a shady story in the local immigration work that was previously handled by the military.
After Hao Wanqing communicated with Chen Yixin and Morgan, the three of them believed that the immigration loophole might indeed be exploited by Ming intelligence agencies. In fact, this is nothing new. Ming intelligence agents used their immigration status as a cover to infiltrate Haihan and lurk in the country. This has long been common in immigration work in the south. But here in Shandong, the immigration work managed by the military has become even more chaotic, leaving more opportunities for those who are interested.
In the past, it was because the military's main energy was focused on local security and the strategy of the Liaodong region, and it did not actually put much thought into the work in the civil affairs field. But now that this area of affairs has begun to affect Haihan's work in the Liaodong region, As for the governance and security of this region and even the southern colonies, the big shots in power will naturally want to take a look at what is going on here.
The Ministry of Security has prepared corresponding plans for the more common problems in immigration matters. If it is really necessary to investigate, it will only take a lot of effort. As long as the person in charge is under control, the Ministry of Security has the means to slowly put the pieces of information together and plug the existing immigration loopholes. What's special this time is that the case involves the military. Although Hao Wanqing has great authority, he still has to give the military some face. If Morgan insists on conducting a self-examination first and saving the person, Hao Wanqing can probably only inform Sanya of the situation, and let Victory Fort weigh the pros and cons and coordinate.
Since Morgan agreed to the request and was willing to let the military police cooperate with the Ministry of Security's investigation, the matter would be handled with less trouble. Hao Wanqing believes that as long as the persons involved can be interrogated according to the Ministry of Security's methods, the truth will soon come to light.
Su Wei, who played the role of a whistleblower in this process, soon received a request from the Ministry of Security to assist in the investigation. To investigate cases in this professional field, it is easier to get twice the result with half the effort if there are knowledgeable people to assist.
There was no way Su Yu could refuse the request from the Ministry of Security. He needs to assist the Ministry of Security in identifying the crimes of the officers involved in order to prove that his previous disputes and conflicts with military personnel were not unreasonable. Moreover, the investigation assistance document issued by Hao Wanqing made it very clear that after the case is completed, the Ministry of Security will invite Su Yu as a special consultant on immigration security in the occupied areas of Shandong. This means that no matter whether the military will be hostile to him in the future, at least the Ministry of Security will protect him as one of its own and allow him to stay in Shandong and work peacefully. The prerequisite is to find out the immigrants in the previously occupied areas of Shandong. Shady.
Of course, it may be too exaggerated to say that there is a shady story now. After all, how many immigrants are recruited locally every month, the number is registered and submitted to the executive committee for review, and the specific figures can be documented at any time. It is only a small number of special immigrants who have special skills that can allow the handlers to make a fuss about economic benefits. The registration information that was allegedly destroyed is the roster of these special immigrants, with detailed suggestions recorded on it. The number of immigration subsidies issued. After the immigrants are transported to the south and taken over by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they receive subsidies according to the list and standards given by Shandong.
If the person in charge is trying to make money, then there is a lot of room for manipulation. Even a non-professional like Hao Wanqing can come up with at least four or five ways without using too much brainpower. However, the direction that the Ministry of Security wants to investigate is not just how much public funds the person in charge has embezzled or how much bribes he has accepted, but whether he deliberately granted immigration qualifications to certain people with suspicious identities during his tenure and assisted such people to enter Haihan. Occupied territory.
The officers who clashed with Su Yu were quickly escorted to the Ministry of Security by the gendarmerie. After interrogation, the gendarmerie arrested several other people involved in the case in the Shandong garrison. The main role Su Yu played in this process was to act as a technical consultant, assisting the security department in identifying whether the confessions of the persons involved in the case regarding immigration work were credible. Because of his identity, Liu Shang always kept a distance from the Ministry of Security, fearing that he would avoid them. However, it was inevitable that he would be curious about the intelligence agency Haihan. It was rare that his current roommate was working with the Ministry of Security, so Liu Shang used the chat to intentionally or unintentionally bring the topic to the immigration case, giving Su Yu an opportunity. Describe what he saw about the Ministry of Security’s case-handling methods.
"I'm not afraid of Brother Liu's jokes. I've been afraid of seeing blood since I was a child, so I've never been in the room where they interrogate prisoners. I could smell the smell of blood from a long way away and it made me dizzy." Su Wei said. He did not hide anything and honestly told the situation of his assistance in handling the case: "I was waiting in the office to see if there were any obvious loopholes in the confessions they compiled. There were some things in the professional field that they didn't understand very well. Let me explain.”
Liu Shang laughed and said: "You are so afraid of blood, why go and cause such a big trouble and come back, I'm afraid you won't be beaten in pain!"
Su Yu said seriously: "This is different. I stood up to report, firstly for myself, and secondly for the benefit of the country. At the moment of life and death, the national justice is definitely much more important than a trivial matter like fainting."
Seeing that he spoke solemnly, Liu Shang also put away his smile and said: "I heard you hesitate and retreat in your remarks that night. I thought you would choose to compromise with the military and turn a blind eye to this matter. I didn’t expect that you would choose to break up and make things worse in the end. It seems that I did misunderstand you.”
"To put it more seriously, since I am a Haihan official, I have to shoulder a certain responsibility when I am in charge of my position. Even if I am an official as big as sesame seeds and mung beans, that is a task entrusted to me by the country. How can I neglect it? ." Su Yu spoke sternly, and then changed the subject: "To put it more lightly, judging from the current direction of the investigation, I can get some credit for myself with this case, and my resume will look better. . If there is a promotion opportunity in the future, this may become one of the priorities of the boss.”
Liu Shangneng felt two completely opposite temperaments from Su Yu. On the one hand, he was a little bureaucrat who planned everything for himself. He had very realistic ideas and put his own interests first in everything. On the other hand, Su Yu attaches great importance to his official status and responsibilities, and all the decisions he makes seem to be in line with Haihan's national interests. Liu Shang couldn't tell for a while whether Su Yu was a slippery bureaucrat or a capable official who was deliberately disguised.
The Ministry of Security investigated and interrogated the case very quickly. After three days, it had taken into custody one of the persons involved, compiled the corresponding confessions and other evidence, and sent them to Zhejiang on the southward ship for verification and processing. Liu Shang asked Su Yu again and found out that the information the Ministry of Security had obtained from the soldiers involved in the case was actually very limited. These people all had appointments with the people in Zhejiang who were responsible for accepting immigrants. Through agreed operations, both parties deducted part of the immigration subsidy for personal use. But apart from that, they refused to admit that there were other illegal operations, especially the accusations related to safety. Several people involved in the case refused to admit it.
Although Hao Wanqing captured several people alive in the Zheng Ai case, these people were all dead soldiers selected from the Ming army in Dengzhou and had no direct contact with the spies lurking in the Haihan controlled area, so it was difficult to Find out whether the various security problems that have arisen recently are related to the immigration officials' lax control at the beginning or even deliberately allowing suspicious persons to enter the country.
If it was just corruption and perversion of the law, then as long as the people involved returned the money and repented, they would not be guilty of death. At most, they would be sent to the southern islands to work as coolies for a few years. But if the Ming spies were allowed to pass intentionally or unintentionally, it would be suspected of colluding with foreign countries and betraying national interests. Even if they were sentenced to death, it would be a normal result.
The Ministry of Security is also more cautious in handling this kind of case. The identities of these prisoners are quite special. The military has also been paying attention to the progress of the investigation of the case. If these people are to be charged with serious crimes, the military will definitely not Will approve. Without evidence, accusations of safety hazards are certainly not valid.
"So in the end, this case can only be solved with a few slaps." Liu Shang felt quite complicated after hearing the results of the case investigation from Su Yu. As a member of the Ming Dynasty Gongsect, he certainly did not want his colleagues to have their identities discovered by Haihan. In that case, even if they did not die, they would not have a good life in the future. However, as a Haihan official, he would inevitably have a hostile feeling towards the Ming spies lurking in Haihan, subconsciously believing that their presence would affect his personal safety.
This contradictory state of mind made Liu Shang feel as if he was schizophrenic, and he was not sure whether he should be happy or disappointed. Of course, Su Yan couldn't understand his complicated psychological condition. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "That's not something I can control. Fortunately, after this battle, I have successfully removed myself, and I don't have to worry about the military." I will wear small shoes because of this, which is a very satisfactory result for me.”
Liu Shang asked: "I have always wanted to ask you, when you planned this matter, did you take the Ministry of Security's intervention into consideration?"
Su Yu hesitated for a moment before nodding and responded: "I have considered it, but I didn't expect that the issue that the Ministry of Security is interested in is not how much benefit the military leader has gained from it. Sure enough, the style of doing things for a special agency like the Ministry of Security is very similar to Ordinary yamen are very different.”
Liu Shangxindao's Security Department is an intelligence agency, so its perspective on considering issues is naturally unusual. However, Su Yu took this situation into consideration from the beginning, which shows that he is indeed thoughtful. If Sanya had chosen someone else to come over, perhaps they wouldn't have handled it as thoroughly as he did.
(End of chapter)