Chapter 66 Buy Scouting Brigade

At the beginning of 1935, Generalissimo Jiang handed over the command of the "Songhu Garrison Headquarters Reconnaissance Brigade" to Dai Li, and Wu Naixian, the head of the Military Control Shanghai Station, was appointed as the captain of the entire detective brigade, which was located on Fangxie Road in the Chinese District of the city. Inside the Baiyun Temple.In theory, the military detectives in the entire Shanghai area are now under the command of the Secret Service.In practice, however, this is far from the case, and the changes are administratively cosmetic.In other words, Wu Naixian, the head of the Shanghai station, only had the title of captain of the reconnaissance team in name.If the head of the secret service wanted to achieve anything other than the number one job, he would have to control the middle ranks of the Scouting Brigade by placing his own men in the "inspector" positions.

After Wu Naixian's reconnaissance team leader was replaced by Weng Guanghui, it became very important to place his own people in it.When Weng took office, he brought four members of the Secret Service as "inspectors": Shen Zui, Cheng Muyi, Lin Zhijiang, and Ni Yongchao.In their plan to turn the Detective Brigade of the Garrison Command into a semi-military political institution of the secret police, the new inspectors immediately encountered two obstacles: the resistance of the deputy captain and the non-cooperation of the ordinary detectives in the brigade. Vice captain Peng Bowei is Yang Hu's man. He had run the seamen's union for Yang Hu since the Great Purge of 1927, and had a very reliable network among customs officials and inspectors, because they got their jobs through him.As long as Peng is the deputy captain of the reconnaissance brigade, Dai Li's interests will be hindered.As a result, when the team leader was changed the next time: Wang Zhaohuai replaced Weng Guanghui, Dai Li pushed Peng Bowei away and replaced him with Yang Fengqi, then team leader.

Regular "inspectors" are veterans of the military police and obstacles to plans to turn municipal police into tools of white terror.In their awareness and training, military inspectors are primarily concerned with maintaining local law and order.For them, turning the reconnaissance brigade into a tool of terror and violence, using its power of arrest to replace illegal kidnapping, and imposing punishment without following normal interrogation procedures is intolerable. However, removing or replacing these auditors is not easy.One point alone shows why: many of them developed close working relationships with the police in the French Concession and Shanghai.This made it much easier for the agents of the Secret Service to arrest suspects in the British Concession, but at the same time the agents at Shanghai Station were very cautious, not wanting to arouse the suspicion and suspicion of the foreign concession police by suddenly throwing away their friends and old acquaintances in the gendarmerie. hostility.So they decided to slowly search for detectives from the reconnaissance brigade, and if possible, they would select military and police detectives to join the Shanghai station as agents.

After Wang Zhaohuai became the captain of the reconnaissance brigade, more than a dozen former secret agents were successively sent to be detectives, and some former important inspectors of the reconnaissance brigade, such as Zhu Youxin and Wang Kaiming, were absorbed as authentic military command agents.Once their concerns were eliminated, the military and police reconnaissance department became a real secret police agency, serving the Shanghai station of the military command.Whenever the Shanghai Station wants to turn a kidnapping into an arrest, the reconnaissance brigade only needs to ask for a permit from the police headquarters, and the latter will respond to requests.Occasionally, the circumstances of the case are really outrageous, and the secret police will ask the Military Law Department for some legal basis for appearance.

The director of the Military Law Department is Lu Jingshi, a disciple of Du Yuesheng, who is very close to Wang Zhaohuai, the captain of the reconnaissance team.If the Gestapo were going to release a prisoner who had been beaten to the brink of death, they let the JJ take over.Lu Jingshi was very willing to agree, but his men were very unhappy, complaining that they were forced to serve as a cover for the Shanghai station reconnaissance team.As a result, Dai Li's people simply got the unquestionable right to arrest, which actually replaced the power of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, making them feel confident that under the direct command of Nanjing, they would become a terrifying demon in these areas .Now, they can put political prisoners in prison and torture them without any scruples.

Dai Li seized Shanghai's traffic police department in the same way he had seized the reconnaissance brigade of the police headquarters: in the autumn of 1935 he had Wu Naixian appointed chief inspector of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou railway.This is a very important management position, which means handing over the responsibility of Wu's military and police reconnaissance team leader to Weng Guanghui, and handing over the position of the person in charge of the Shanghai Station to Wang Xinheng.Soon, the police detective department of China Steam Commercial Navigation Company was also handed over to Dai Liren, and Dai Li directly deployed personnel from Nanjing to key positions inside.From then on, people from the secret service can travel by train and ship for free, and whenever the secret agent's prisoners are transferred from Shanghai to the capital, the agents at the Shanghai station can get the full support of the railway police: they will put the sleeping car The special box inside is for them to use secretly.