"salute!"

The new official took office as Young Master Chen had just got out of the car and the guards who were performing warning tasks outside the headquarters of the Transportation Office were holding guns and saluting each other.

A middle-aged man in a suit and ties greeted him with a group of men and women wearing black Zhongshan suits and blue sky badges on his chest. Chen Baohua leaned into his ear and introduced: "The one in front is Wu Zhuozhi and Deputy Director Wu. You should have heard of it. He founded the famous Jiangnan Automobile Company. The two behind him are Zhang Yanyuan, the head of the guard inspection team, and Tang Hai'an, the head of the general affairs team."

"Welcome, warmly welcome General Chen to come to our office."

Wu Zhuozhi held his hand tightly and did not relax, with an extremely enthusiastic expression. Master Chen chuckled while pointing to everyone, "Deputy Director Wu personally welcomed Jizu, so he was flattered. Southwest transportation is related to the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Deputy Director Wu is the pillar of the Transportation Department, so it is not good to delay work. Let's go in."

"No matter how busy you are, you won't be in a hurry. The welcome meeting will still be held. Team Leader Tang, are you ready?"

"The report seats are ready."

The general affairs team leader had a greasy and frosty look like a playboy than himself. Master Chen glanced at him and then asked a smile at another team leader: "Captain Zhang, right? He has long been well-known. When he saw it today, he really deserves his reputation."

Zhang Yanyuan is very famous, a veteran Fuxing Society spy and one of Dai Li's "Ten People Group". He has served as the intelligence stationmaster of South China, the operation team leader of the North China Office, and the deputy director. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he also served as the head of the Political Training Department of the Central Military Police Command for several days.

The Military Control Commission is very powerful, but it is only compared to those ordinary officials.

Master Chen has made great achievements in his military affairs, which in a sense also represents the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Even the chairman is treated very well. Not to mention his small guard audit team leader, even Boss Dai would not dare to make any decisions easily. Facing this immediate boss with great military achievements, Zhang Yanyuan was a little nervous and hurriedly stepped forward to stand attentively to salute, "I am the head of the guard audit team Zhang Yanyuan, please sit down and give me a lecture!"

From the name, you can distinguish the superiority. Wu Zhuozhi is also the deputy director of the Transportation Department, but no one has ever called him a "seat", and he feels a little sad. But when he thinks of the extraordinary achievements he has made and the position of Major General Director of the 28th Supplementary Military Training Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs, he feels relieved.

What surprised everyone was that Master Chen, who had a blood hatred with the Military Control Commission, actually stretched out his right hand and smiled meaningfully: "Team leader Zhang was joking. Chen didn't even enter the door and knew nothing about the transportation department. It's almost the same for asking for advice. How could he give me any advice?"

The Southwest Transportation Office seems inconspicuous, but it is actually a veritable ministerial-level unit. Director Song Ziliang received the minister's salary of 800 yuan per month. Since he is called "District", the following office can only be called "group", and branches are called "divisions".

The organization is extremely large, with more than 500 officials and staff at home, including road transport team, accounting team, shipping team, railway transport team, engineer room, secretary room, guard inspection team, special party department, inspection team, specialist, etc., which squeezed the yard so much that it was blocked. It was not until he was invited to the podium that Mr. Chen discovered that he had gone to the airport to greet his other deputy director Gong Jiasui was also at the headquarters.

The Director was not at home, and the ceremony was hosted by Deputy Director Wu Zhuozhi. After enthusiastically posting a welcome speech, he strongly asked Mr. Chen to say a few words to everyone.

This is just a paramilitary institution. Apart from dozens of guards with live ammunition, few people wear military uniforms. Master Chen is wearing military uniform and looks a little out of place with this occasion. Seeing everyone applauding desperately, he raised his right hand and saluted.

"As a soldier who just returned from the battlefield, no one knows the importance of this job better than me. So when I was interviewed by a friend in the press at the airport yesterday, Chen said that being the deputy director was like walking on thin ice. Now when I walked into the yard and looked at everyone, the heavy feeling became stronger and stronger. Fortunately, Chen is only a deputy director, including Director Song, Deputy Director Wu, Deputy Director Gong, and all the colleagues who have worked hard to do their best. I believe that our department can live up to the trust of the 400 million compatriots and complete the tasks assigned by the leader and the Military Commission."

After the scene was finished, Master Chen raised his arm again and greeted a standard military salute, "Thank you all for your enthusiasm. The southwest transportation is related to the overall situation of the War of Resistance against Japan. It can be said that every second is necessary. You must not delay your work because of Chen. Deputy Director Wu and Deputy Director Gong, the welcome ceremony is here?"

There are indeed many things, Wu Zhuozhi agreed and said, "Okay, Team Leader Zhang, Team Leader Tang and Director Chen accompany General Chen to get to know the situation. Everyone else should go back."

The organizational outline of the Southwest Transportation Department clearly stipulates that "the department's Zhili Military Commission, therefore, the head and deputy directors of this department are selected by the Military Commission." Article 15 of the organizational outline also stipulates that "the department has two to three deputy directors to assist the director in handling affairs."

If someone comes, someone will naturally leave.

With the arrival of Master Chen, the younger brother of the famous industrialist Liu Hongsheng, Liu Jisheng, who is known as the "Match King", stepped down. Fortunately, he just named him and almost never inquire about the internal affairs of the Transportation Office. He was far away from Hong Kong, so he had no idea of ​​handing over the work. Even the office reserved for him was not even collected. Master Chen moved in directly with the general affairs leader Tang Hai'an.

"Captain, this is what Boss Dai asked me to hand it over to you."

Zhang Yanyuan was not afraid of it, so he took out an envelope in front of Chen Baohua. When Master Chen opened it, he found that it was the list of the deaths of the Second Regiment of Zhongyi Rescue and the Second Battalion in the Battle of Wujin when blocking the enemy on the Eastern Front. Each name was marked with resumes. More than 20 officers including deputy regiment commander, brigade leader, squadron leader, etc. were all from Huangpu. The squad leader and squadron leader and other backbones came from each training class established by the Military Control Commission.

Enemies should be resolved rather than formed. How could Master Chen not understand Boss Dai’s intention? He put down the list in his hand and said solemnly: “They are all heroes, and they have bought valuable time for ambushing Itagaki and encircling the Takahashi Brigade Regiment Headquarters. Team Leader Zhang, please tell you Boss Dai that I have accepted this list.”

Zhang Yanyuan focused his attention and said with emotion: "Satisfied with the truth, if possible, please allow our guard and inspection team to be responsible for your future safety."

The deputy director in charge of guard auditing and external liaison did not want the guard auditing team to be responsible for his own safety. It was indeed unreasonable. Master Chen weighed it and said as if nothing had happened: "Okay, you can discuss it with Director Chen, but don't mobilize the troops."

It was already very good to get this result. Zhang Yanyuan and Chen Baohua looked at each other and asked with a smile: "Director Chen, should I go to your office, or should you go to my place to study it?"

"Tomorrow," Chen Baohua said expressionlessly: "I have something to report to the attendee today."

They came from Shanghai together, and their relatives and distantness were self-evident. Zhang Yanyuan didn't insist, and gave another military salute and left the office.

Young Master Chen was alone and took nothing except a briefcase. For Chen Baohua, this is trust. He closed the door and introduced it carefully: "As the saying goes, the temple is small and the wind is strong, the water is shallow and there are many turtles. The transportation department is no exception. It can be divided into Song Ziliang and his confidants, personnel transferred from the Ministry of Railways or from Jiaotong University, Wu Zhuozhi's original team of Jiangnan Automobile Company, Gong Xuesui's Jiangxi Construction Department stall, the Military Control Commission and overseas Chinese. In order to compete for power and profit, the factions have continued to attack and accuse each other, and have developed to the point of inconsistent."

"overseas Chinese?"

"Don't get me wrong. I'm not referring to you, but to the managers and mechanics sent by the 'Nanqiao General Association'. In contrast, they accused the other factions of being completely out of public interest and not ordinary fighting for power."

“Summary.”

"The Transportation Department was originally affiliated with the Military Commission. In order to avoid the attention of the enemy, it appeared in a private manner. At the beginning of its establishment, many agencies and commercial groups were not clear about the truth and mistakenly believed that private profits should not be favored by governments. News media and democrats accused it of bureaucratic capital and attacked it arbitrarily. Therefore, when encountering many unexpected troubles, Song Ziliang was poor enough to deal with it and turned to the Military Control Commission.

With Dai Li's sensitivity, of course he knew that this was a good opportunity. He immediately sent the veteran Zhang Yanyuan as the leader of the guard and inspection team; then he sent Wang Zuhua as the leader of the political training team, "Playboy" Chen Zhiping as the head of the personnel section, and "Mansion Secretary" Pan Qiwu as the deputy director of the Lashio Branch."

As if he realized that Young Master Chen did not want to listen to the bad things of the Military Control Commission and the Central Commission, Chen Baohua immediately introduced from another perspective, "In the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Transportation Department was established and began to transport the first batch of military supplies to the mainland. When the first mission was carried out, conflicts began to occur within the country. Liu Jisheng and Song Ziwen, the "second-in-commander" of the Liu family enterprise, were stationed in Hong Kong and did not take care of the specific affairs of the Southwest Transportation Department, so Gong Xuesui and Wu Zhuozhi, who were stationed in Guangzhou, became Song Ziliang's right-hand men.

Among the two, Gong Xuesui was Xiong Shihui's team and had served as the director of the Construction Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Government; Wu Zhuozhi was an industrialist, and they were responsible for a business department respectively. Gong Xuesui led the engineer's office and Wu Zhuozhi was responsible for the road transportation team. Wu Zhuozhi almost all the employees of Jiangnan Automobile Company were installed into the road transportation team, the office, the transportation and repair of each transportation section and the factory; except for most of Gong Xuesui's confidants occupying the engineer's rooms, they were distributed in each branch, section and factory.

Internal personnel disputes started with the engineer's office led by Gong Xuesui and attacked the road transportation team led by Wu Zhuozhi. People in the engineer's office were jealous when they saw that the road transportation team was so comfortable that they lived a comfortable life and often reported to Song Ziliang. After reading these reports, Song Ziliang put them into the hands of the personnel department chief Chen Zhiping. The agents are the best at profiting from conflicts. Chen Zhiping is a good at this. When he received these reports, he transferred them to Wu Zhuozhi intact. Wu let out some gossip to Gong.

Gong Xuesui was born under Xiong Shihui, the Department of Political Science. His technique was more than studying in France. He only worked as a short-term instructor at the Transportation Research Institute organized by the Military Affairs Bureau. Wu Zhuozhi, who had been planning for a long time, was much more clever. His gossip about Wu was not calculating on the surface, but secretly instigated Song Ziliang's classmates, Feng Jiantong, the director of the Changsha branch, and Wu died."

It's so chaotic! Master Chen sighed inwardly and asked curiously: "What is Feng Jiantong's origin? Is he qualified to fight Wu?"

There was always someone outside who was guarding her. Chen Baohua had nothing inconvenient to say. He quickly explained: "Feng Jiantong is a classmate of Song Ziliang at St. John's University. He was the head of the railway minister (Sha) and Yue (Yang) railway transportation section. He came at the invitation of Song and could have obtained a position as deputy director, but lost to Wu Zhuozhi. He had no choice but to 'submit' the director of the Changsha branch office. He had been angry for a long time. After Gong's instigation, he became the vanguard of anti-Wu."

"What happened later?"

"Before the Wuhan Battle, military supplies imported from Hong Kong were transported from Guangzhou to Changsha by the Guangdong-Hankou Railway. Wu Zhuozhi first selected twenty-four squadrons to set off. The road transport team only conducted a two-week squadron training for the officers and soldiers of the 24 squadrons. Most of the officers were originally ticket sellers, ticket holders, drivers and copper smiths of Jiangnan Automobile Company. A small part of them was temporarily recruited in Guangzhou during the Zeng Yangfu era; a small part of the soldiers were transferred by the reserve drivers and apprentices of Jiangnan Automobile Company, but most of them were recruited in Guangzhou.

This is the first time for such a vast car transportation in China; this is the first time for Chinese drivers to climb mountains and ridges like this. Therefore, when passing Jiufeng Mountain and Nanling, when crossing mountains, overturn accidents occur one after another. When these convoys arrived in Changsha, there were as many as 200 incomplete vehicles, and the number of overturns accounted for dozens of them."

Master Chen suddenly realized and blurted out: "In this way, Feng Jiantong has an excuse."

"Um."

Chen Baohua nodded and continued, "He seized this opportunity and shot several telegrams to Song Ziliang, accusing Wu Zhuozhi of destroying the anti-Japanese war transportation and destroying the anti-Japanese war supplies. Song Ziliang received the telegram and scolded Wu Zhuozhi for being ignorant. From then on, Wu hated Gong and Feng, and at the same time felt that the situation was becoming increasingly difficult. Zhang Yanyuan took the opportunity to win over Wu, form a Wu-Zhang Alliance, and sent a large number of military commanders to Wu's repair system and transportation department."

No wonder Wu Zhuozhi and a group of military spies went out to greet him, but the Gong family stayed in the yard and waited. It turned out that water and fire were incompatible.

Seeing that Mr. Chen was interested in listening, Chen Baohua became even more excited and continued with a smile: "According to the business division of the transportation department, each transportation section is managed by dual management. It is classified as Wu Zhuozhi's road transport group. However, in order to cooperate with the actual tasks of various places, it is stipulated that the branches in the corresponding regions have the right to supervise and command them.

By June 27, when transportation was the most intense, the management of the road transport group did not improve much. As a result, each branch attacked Wu Zhuozhi and Feng Jiantong sent emergency telegrams to Song Ziliang, saying, "If the main office does not change the ownership of the transportation section, the separate office will not bear any transportation responsibility; if the main office does not change the ownership of the transportation section, the separate office will not bear any transportation responsibility; if the hundreds of vehicles that cannot be driven are stopped in Changsha, Wu Zhuozhi will not bear any responsibility if he is bombarded by enemy planes."

The other branches also complained about this, and Song Ziliang was a person who was impatient with "civil affairs". He actually recommended it to Zhang Yanyuan for investigation, research and improvement.

Although Wu and Zhang had an alliance, Zhang still felt that Wu could not listen to his orders, so he tried to find an opportunity to tame him. He specially conducted an inspection with Wu from Guangzhou to Changsha and in western Hunan. On the grounds that many broken vehicles were abandoned along the way, many vehicles were stopped, and a team of car drivers were found to have a "yellow croaker" and on the excuse that the chief and deputy section chief of Guichang section were not responsible for supervising the transit military vehicles of the Guichang section, Song Ziliang telegraphed that the chief and deputy section chief of Guichang section chief were dismissed and investigated, and the employees of each transportation section, as well as the personnel of each transportation section, including the convoy officer and the soldiers, were transferred to the local branch office to recruit the best."

Even though Wu Zhuozhi was not bad, he was the only person in the entire transportation office who was proficient in transportation. Master Chen frowned, "How did Song Ziliang deal with it?"

"You can't believe it when you say it. After reading it, he agreed without thinking, and removed the Hengchang Section Chief and the precious Section Chief. In this way, Wu Zhuozhi's three capable minions were removed. However, Zhang Yanyuan transferred the military commanders in each transportation section to the local branch inspection department. He also instructed the supervisory section chiefs of each branch to participate in the recruitment of the convoy officials of each branch, so as to open the gap in the convoy so that a large number of lower-level personnel of the military command were transferred to the local branch office to fill in the position of the convoy.

According to the original staffing, there were only six people in the Supervision Section of each branch. As a result, Zhang took this opportunity to expand the Supervision Section and added the Guard Division and the Inspection Section in the Department, increasing the posts to twenty or thirty. In addition, there were many additional inspectors and escorts. Taking advantage of that internal conflict, Zhang Yanyuan turned his back on the passenger side and completely placed the most important business of his transportation department, transportation, under his strict monitoring.

Although his supervisory section chiefs are nominally under the jurisdiction of the branch director, they are actually parallel to the branch directors. They are completely indifferent to the branch department's expenses, salary and even the private life of the branch directors, which has caused general dissatisfaction among the branch directors and other department station personnel. They even often fabricate information about branch directors and employees at all levels, send it to Zhang Yanyuan, or send it directly to the Military Affairs Bureau, causing many employees to be "falsely" and punished variously."
Chapter completed!