Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 763 The Hierarchy of Disdain in the Spy Industry

Sitting in his car, accompanied by his newly recruited secretary and driver, Ye Shaohong left the headquarters of the Luojiawan Special Service Department.

The torrential rain continued to fall inside the car.

Inside the car, Ye Shaohong's newly recruited secretary and driver were also introducing themselves.

The first to speak was Ye Shaohong's personal secretary.

His name is Zhang He.

That's right.

He was a general under Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period; the two men shared the same name.

According to Zhang He, he came from Shanxi Province.

Graduated from National Zhejiang University. Majored in Chinese Literature.

He joined the Special Service Department in August 1935. After joining the department, he first received six months of training in the Rectification and Training Section, and then was assigned to Jiangxi Province to carry out undercover work.

He returned to headquarters more than three months ago.

After returning, he first worked briefly in Mao Renfeng's secretary's office, and then was assigned to work under Ye Shaohong.

His experience is quite rich.

After the introductions, Zhang He immediately expressed his respect to Ye Shaohong and stated that he would serve Ye Shaohong faithfully and without reservation in the future.

Ye Shaohong did not offer any comment on Zhang He's own explanation.

He simply turned to the side and gave Zhang He a cold look.

Although Zhang He only gave a brief self-introduction, Ye Shaohong already knew a lot from his description. First of all...

The National Zhejiang University that Zhang He mentioned is no ordinary school.

During the Republic of China era, it was one of the five top universities in China.

With the backing of wealthy families from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, National Zhejiang University once stood at the pinnacle of the national government.

It even surpassed National Tsinghua University and National Beiping University.

It is evident that this secretary named Zhang He must have a rather complicated family background.

At the very least, they were wealthy landowners and gentry.

But that's not the most important thing.

Most importantly, Zhang He intentionally concealed something from him.

That explains why he was able to be transferred back to the Special Service Headquarters during his time infiltrating Jiangxi Province.

In fact, there is a hierarchy of contempt within the espionage industry. If we disregard their specific positions and ranks, all spies can be divided into three main categories.

They are intelligence agents, action agents, and logistics agents.

Of these three categories, intelligence agents hold the highest status.

Because their daily work involves gathering intelligence, investigating information, sorting information, tracking and investigating, searching crime scenes, monitoring and eavesdropping, and making decisions...

Often, an intelligence agent, under certain specific circumstances, can single-handedly exert the influence of a division or even a legion.

Simply put, they all have the potential to become strategic-level intelligence personnel.

If this is still not clear enough...

Then it becomes clear by looking at the power structure of the Secret Service.

Within the headquarters and various regional branches of the Special Service, the Intelligence Section was often the most important and core department. Even though their numbers were small, they consistently held a dominant role and enjoyed a special status in both headquarters and regional branches.

Take the Special Service Headquarters as an example. Before Zheng Jiemin and the Baoding faction were eliminated by Dai Yunong, the only departments directly under Dai Yunong's supervision were the Intelligence Section and the Telecommunications Section.

These two departments are also places that Dai Yunong absolutely cannot allow others to interfere with.

This demonstrates the importance of the intelligence department and intelligence agents.

Below the intelligence agents are the operational agents.

While they are called special agents, the concept is actually quite broad. In addition to professional agents who graduate from various military and police academies, the Special Service has also been recruiting highly capable elite soldiers from various local armies.

They can all be classified as members of the special operations team.

These agents were also the ones who suffered the most casualties and had the lowest status within the Secret Service.

In the core controlled area of ​​the Nationalist government, if the Special Service Department or its branches wanted to arrest someone or a Japanese spy, it was these same personnel who would carry out the operation.

That's something you have to risk your life for.

Therefore, the personnel of the Special Operations Section also suffered the most casualties and had the fastest turnover rate.

Based on this consideration, students like Ye Shaohong who graduate from military or police academies are often directly recruited as second lieutenants after joining the Special Operations Section.

To command a small action team.

Their team members were elite soldiers drawn from various local military units.

Even among the elite soldiers, there was a saying that they were cannon fodder.

Training courses organized by the Military Intelligence Bureau over the years actually distinguished between intelligence agents and operational agents. In real history, the Qingpu Special Training Class, as described by the waiter in spy dramas, was far less sophisticated than depicted in the series.

Because the students who graduated from the Qingpu Special Training Class were not trained in any subject related to intelligence.

Rather, it refers to military operations.

This can be seen from the job assignments of the graduates from the Qingpu Special Training Class.

After the Battle of Shanghai began, the Qingpu Special Training Program trainees, who had only been training for three months, were directly pulled onto the battlefield by Dai Yunong.

They were assigned to the Loyal and Patriotic Army, where they served as low-ranking officers.

After the Battle of Shanghai, the surviving trainees of the Qingpu Special Training Class were assigned to three different directions by Dai Yunong.

Some of the top trainees went to the Linli Special Training Class to serve as action instructors.

Responsible for training reserve intelligence personnel for the Special Service in military subjects.

One branch was reassigned to the Loyal and Patriotic Army, where he continued to serve as a low-ranking officer.

Under the command of Mao Sen and others, they roamed around the Songhu area and the mountainous areas on the edge of West Lake, fighting guerrilla warfare and maneuvering against the Japanese invaders.

The last group, numbering nearly a hundred people, was directly assigned by Dai Yunong to occupied Shanghai.

They were incorporated into three action brigades.

Responsible for carrying out assassinations, sabotage, and eliminating traitors.

Most of the graduates of the Qingpu Special Training Class died on the Battle of Shanghai, while the rest died in guerrilla warfare and intelligence battles in Shanghai.

The waiter in the spy drama "Penetration" would never have existed in the real history of the War of Resistance against Japan.

Because Dai Yunong never really cared about the people in the Qingpu special training class. If there was one special training class that Dai Yunong truly cared about, then the students who graduated from the Zhejiang Provincial Police Academy would be the first to come to mind.

That was in 1932, when the Special Service Department had just been established. In order to recruit professional agents, Dai Yunong specially asked Chairman Chiang Kai-shek for permission to hold a training class for intelligence agents in private. During his time as the chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Police Academy School Committee, he did so privately.

That was Dai Yunong's most beloved disciple, one could say he was Dai Yunong's most prized student.

Next up is the Hong Gongci training course.

In the spy drama "Kite", the background of Sixth Brother Zheng Yaoxian is that, as the minimum standard for recruiting students to the Hong Gongci Training Class, they must also be graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy.

After joining the Hong Gongci Special Training Class, they will undergo more than six months of professional intelligence agent training.

That's a golden body on top of a golden body.

This shows that much of the information in spy dramas is inaccurate. The screenwriter of the spy drama "Kite" definitely consulted historical materials.

After discussing the Zhejiang Provincial Police Academy and the Honggongci Special Training Class, the next stop for the Military Intelligence Bureau's professional intelligence and special agent school is the Linli Special Training Class.

After the War of Resistance against Japan, the students of this Linli Special Training Class gradually came into the limelight.

They became the core force of the Military Intelligence Bureau in its later stages.

Having said all that, let's return to Ye Shaohong.

What suspicious points did he discover about Zhang He?