Chapter 63 monitor

The most troublesome task for the Shanghai station agents is comprehensive surveillance.Dai Li attached particular importance to this set of tasks: it was both a method of social control and a means of punishment against Chiang Kai-shek's enemies.Enraged by a certain figure's political activities, the chairman would bellow the order: "Look him under surveillance!" The order would be delivered through Dai Li.So a certain group under the Shanghai Railway Station will organize a surveillance specifically for that person.But there were only a dozen field agents in each group, and although each agent would bring in his relatives and friends to help, there were still not enough people.As a result, most monitoring is intermittent.The team leaders tried their best to conceal this fact from Dai Li, who thought someone was under constant surveillance.In fact, the monitoring is only staged, and its records and reports are also fabricated.Contrary to expectations, due to the limited manpower of the agents, who were scattered throughout the city, they were unable to effectively monitor so many suspected enemies of the Kuomintang regime. Instead, a heavily guarded atmosphere of the secret police was created, giving the public the impression that the activities of secret agents were ubiquitous.

The treatment of important suspects is different.For example, intoxicated people continued to monitor Mr. Huang Yanpei's "China Vocational Education Association" at the intersection of Hualong Road and Huanlong Road in the French Concession, hoping to detect "counter-revolutionaries" who had come into contact with this famous educator and reporter. Fang Dingying was demoted by Chiang Kai-shek after establishing the "Anti-Japanese League", and was also under long-term surveillance.Xue Dubi resigned to work as a lawyer in Shanghai because he resisted the government's compromise policy, and proposed a unified resistance war, so a group of people was sent to monitor his house and office in the French Concession, and "perpetrators" came to him Pretend to be patriotic and seek his support.

Warlords and their representatives are also closely monitored.In the early 1930s, the great warlords enjoyed the status of diplomats in Nanjing and Shanghai, sending envoys to represent their interests and negotiate for them.For example, a warlord in Sichuan set up an office in the "Yipinxiang" restaurant in Shanghai with Zhou Xunyu, a graduate of the fourth class of Whampoa, as his liaison.Yipinxiang Hotel is basically the stronghold of Sichuanese in Shanghai.The regular residents there are two old Sichuanese: Xie Wuliang and Zeng Tongyi. They have lived there for many years, even if the restaurant owner changes, they still live there.The Sichuan folks were very relaxed there and talked about everything.So Zhou realized that this was his chance to gather intelligence about Sichuan, which was very scattered among different warlords.After Zhou Xunyu was recruited by Dai Li's people as a secret agent, this opportunity became even more important.But Zhou was so loyal to Sichuan that he became a double agent, spying on both sides.Therefore, Dai Li never fully trusted Zhou. Later, when he found out that Zhou had kept information from him, he threw him into a secret prison of the military command, and Zhou disappeared completely from then on.