Chapter 104 Chapter 16 Nepotism

Dai Li ordered the killing of almost 2,000 men and women of secret agents in order to maintain "discipline", but they were dubiously pursued as "martyrs" after their deaths.Dai Li believes that the military commanders executed in this way "used their lives to maintain the dignity and integrity of the collective discipline", and they died for the eternal purity of the military commander's "family tradition". Living expenses, tuition fees and other expenses.And this is also part of the treatment for the families of Kuomintang cadres. It was established by Chiang Kai-shek in a speech in Fuzhou in 1933 to commemorate the victims of the "communist suppression".After Dai Li became the head of the Military Unification Bureau, he held a 10-day "April 1st Conference" at the Military Unification Headquarters every year, with the participation of the internal agents of the overall situation, commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the Secret Service and mourning the dead spies.Before the meeting, he will send a secret invitation to the "heads" of the military command agencies in various provinces and cities.These invited guests, representing their institutions, arrived and were solemnly ushered into the Great Hall, where they awaited the most important mourner—Chiang Kai-shek himself.

With the passage of time, the "April 1st Congress" has become more and more elaborate, and the ceremony has become more and more complicated.After the military command headquarters moved to Chongqing, a "martyr's mourning hall" was built. Those who participated in the 10-day anniversary will see a banner hanging in the auditorium, which reads: Chiang Kai-shek officiated, accompanied by Dai Li, and mourned for the martyrs (died at work), those who died in the line of duty (died from illness) and those who were martyred (sanctioned for breaking the law).After the memorial ceremony, Chiang Kai-shek inspected the senior secret agents present for a week.After he leaves, the attendees will donate money, clothing, etc. to express their condolences.Then Dai Li presided over the meeting and addressed the participants, explaining the process of the establishment of the military reunification and how the supreme leader cared for them.

After Dai Li finished his speech, the banquet with more than 400 tables began, and the dishes served were all selected by Dai Li himself.Toast every time: first for the health of Chiang Kai-shek, then for the health of Dai Li, and then for the health of all the staff.Finally, Dai Li asked the star officer to call "start!"The agents just sat down and began to have dinner.There was also a cultural program at the banquet, performed by a troupe organized by Juntong himself.The celebration will last for several days, and the first day's celebration will not end until late at night.There was still a banquet in the evening after a rest day the next day.Rest on the third day, and hold a banquet and cultural evening at the military command office in the evening.On the fourth day, discuss work issues in small groups.Discussions generally last four to five days.On the last day, Dai Li will lead cadres above the section level of the Military Unification Bureau and representatives from various places to lay a wreath at the "Tomb of the Unknown Heroes" (the tombstone deliberately does not engrave the name) in the suburbs, marking the end of the meeting.After the meeting, Dai Li led representatives from all over the country to the central training class to be summoned by Chiang Kai-shek, so the 10-day commemorative activities came to an end, and the representatives from all over the country returned to their original units.

While the solemn Confucian tone of these rituals was emphasized by Dai Li's solemn and uplifting speeches (especially after 1941), his speeches to his subordinates before then were much more austere and down-to-earth.One would be surprised at the vulgarity and twisting of some of his conversations in the thirties more than a decade ago.Those conversations exposed his mediocre cultural level, but showed his shrewd and sharp mind and the ability to distort aphorisms and manipulate surrounding relationships at will. His language at that time was obviously from a person who was obsessed with tradition. The range of gangsters sounds like a "screen friend".Of course, he was a head taller than the errands in the yamen, but his language was that of a clerk, not that of a learned man.