Chapter 154 inspecting police

Dai Li's smuggling kingdom was based on a tax system that dates back to the establishment of the tax police in the early 1930s. From 1931 to 1932, when Song Ziwen was the Minister of Finance, the Kuomintang government established a "Tax Police Headquarters" led by Wang Geng.In the "January 28th Incident", Wang Geng was arrested by the Japanese in Shanghai. Japanese intelligence officers discovered the military map carried by Wang, thus leaking the deployment of the 19th Route Army. Landing, defeating the defense of Shanghai by the 19th Route Army. As a result, Wang Geng lost his official position, and the Tax Police Headquarters, which was severely frustrated, was supplemented by Zhang Xueliang's "Jianwutang" students from the Northeast Army. In 1936, Huang Jie was the head of the Tax Police Corps, but this troop was defeated by the Japanese during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War in August 1937.After the fall of Shanghai, the surviving members of the Tax Police Corps were transferred to Baoji for training, with Sun Liren as the head of the regiment.

The main competitor of the tax police was the army's "Traffic Supervision Bureau", which was controlled by Feng Ti, the commander of the Changsha Kuomintang security. On October 15, 1938, a catastrophic fire broke out in Changsha, causing Feng Ti to fall out of favor. In a rage, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the criminal squad to shoot Feng Ti.The "Traffic Inspection Bureau" of the dead official was immediately taken over by Dai Li, and two years later it was changed into the "Wartime Freight Administration", also known as the "Transportation Control and Supervision Bureau".General He Yingqin was appointed as the bureau chief, while Dai Li was in charge of the bureau's inspection division.In fact, Dai Li really came to power because of the bureau's more than 80 "checkpoint stations" throughout the Kuomintang-controlled area.

This department was used to conduct clandestine smuggling deals with the enemy and to provide other sources of income to the military command.Dai Li's personnel established "freight management offices" in various provinces, and these offices in turn set up a freight network called "freight management stations", under the cover of local business names (such as Xinglongzhuang, Xiechangzhuang, Zhenxingzhuang, etc.) Colluded with Chinese puppet business organizations operated by the Japanese secret service. The Kuomintang used the U.S.-made printing presses owned by the Central Bank to forge temporary documents of the Japanese army in Northeast China and banknotes of the Wang puppet government to buy items in the occupied areas.Then, the unit of the "Loyalty and National Salvation Army" and the employees of the traffic control station smuggled the purchased items to the mainland to sell them, and made huge profits from it.