Chapter 96 Chapter Fifteen Lying in the Coffin

Although China's civil war between the KMT and the Communist Party was ultimately won by the revolutionary mass line, in the period experienced by Dai Li and Chiang Kai-shek, the key to political rule seemed to be as much about ensuring efficiency through modern technology and organizational discipline as about establishing or Foster cultural and political alignment.In order to achieve political goals quickly and effectively, instead of relying on a group of illiterate poor peasants, it is better to have a group of relatively small but organized, reliable, modern technology and a solid material foundation, with a strong ability to control believer.

We have seen that controlling China's police force is one of the resources that Dai Li has always wanted to occupy.Because the police provided a legal cloak for his covert espionage activities, and because the local public security bureau paved the way for him to infiltrate the city's political system.Some people claim that "by 1933, all the police personnel in important cities across the country were in the hands of Dai Li." Although this may be a bit exaggerated, since 1932, Dai Li's influence has surprisingly penetrated into many public security organs. But Dai Li never gave up the competition.Throughout this period, his power gradually increased, but it was always restricted by Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu.They also command their own secret police within the party—called the Central Party Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, or Zhongtong for short, after Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the agents in 1938.

In addition to its own agencies at the central, provincial, municipal, and regional levels, the Central Committee also manages the Bureau of Statistics and Investigation of the Ministry of Communications, the Taxation Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, the Judicial Personnel Training Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and the County Magistrate Training Institute, the Diplomatic Club of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Embassy in China. Xu Enzeng, the nephew of Chen Guofu, is the spy of the foreign agency. Xu graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University and studied electrical engineering in the United States.In Xu's eyes, Dai Li's Secret Service was nothing more than a gang of reckless and illiterate hooligans who knew nothing but set fire to people.