Chapter 277: Intelligence Agencies
In this way, the total number of troops will be more than 23,000. The number of the regular army of Daijun also exceeded 90,000, of which about 78,000 were combatants. For an independent power with a total population of less than two million, this proportion is also quite large. At least in the short term, if the population of Daigun does not expand, it is unlikely that the army will be expanded.
However, this number is also quite impressive, enough to deal with a medium-sized war, and in the event of a large-scale war, Daijun can at least raise more than 300,000 troops, and it is basically equipped with self-protection.
But the plateau is also very clear, to the national level of competition, the number and strength of the army, is not the only decisive factor, in the past few decades, Zhao's military strength is not weaker than Qin, only on the battlefield, in a period of time still has a slight upper hand, in the competition with Qin, Zhao is getting worse, in addition to the national strength of the factor, there is also an important reason is that Zhao only pays attention to the battlefield competition, while Qin pays attention to the battlefield, does not forget to avoid the second battlefield outside the battlefield.
In the Battle of Changping, and the Battle of Jingcheng that took place in another time and space, the Qin State actually won outside the battlefield. Win by diplomatic, intelligence, anti-intermediary and so on.
For the current Daijun, it is difficult to do much in diplomacy for the time being, but in the field of intelligence, there is still a lot of potential to dig, in fact, the current Daijun has almost no achievements in intelligence, but in the past Zhao State arranged some intelligence lurking personnel in the area, and this is basically the old book, Bi Jing Daijun is the continuation of Zhao State, people and land are familiar, and intelligence is of course easier to do.
Of course, Gao Yuan has only been in charge of Daijun for more than a year, and he is mainly focused on stability and self-protection, and he does not care about intelligence work. Now that Daijun has basically stabilized and is equipped with self-protection capabilities, the establishment of a complete and comparative intelligence system is also on the agenda.
In order to establish an intelligence system, of course, it is first necessary to determine the person responsible for managing intelligence affairs, and Gao Yuan believes that Zhao Xuan is the most suitable person.
Zhao Xuan is Li Mu's former minister, and he is also the veteran of the Wu'an Army, and he has a relationship with Gao Yuan in the same division, so he is a person who can definitely be trusted, which is also the first condition for the person in charge of managing intelligence affairs.
Although Zhao Xuan is still serving as the chief general of the Wu'an Legion, he is actually just a name, because Zhao Xuan's task in the past was Li Mu's escort and was responsible for protecting Li Mu's safety, but Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong both have the ability to protect themselves, and they do not need Li Mu's special guard, and commanding the army is not Zhao Xuan's specialty, in fact, in this position, the person who is favored by the plateau is Jiang Huanwu, but Jiang Huanwu's qualifications are too shallow, and he took over, and he couldn't find other suitable candidates for a while, so he had to temporarily let Zhao Xuan act for a while.
However, in terms of intelligence work, Zhao Xuan has a good appearance. In the battle of leading the army on the plateau against the Yan army, Li Yinghong sitting in Daijun and quelling the Haoqiang rebellion, it was Zhao Xuan who was responsible for monitoring and investigating Haoqiang's movements, and as a result, Zhao Xuan completed this task very well, so that the whereabouts of the Haoqiang have always been in Li Yinghong's control, so that the mighty Haoqiang rebellion collapsed overnight. And in this operation, Zhao Xuan also showed that he does have good abilities in intelligence.
Zhao Xuan has no objection to Gao Yuan's arrangement, after all, he also wants to do something real, and commanding the army to fight is indeed not his forte, and paying for intelligence work is indeed more able to give full play to his ability. But now Jiang Huanwu can't replace Zhao Xuan, so Zhao Xuan can only hold two positions at the same time, fortunately, it is the affairs of the Wu'an Army, basically Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong are paying the responsibility, and Zhao Xuan is just putting on a name.
As for the name of the intelligence agency, Gao Yuan adopted the name of another well-known secret service agency in time and space: Jinyiwei. Of course, he is a self-appointed guard on the famous brocade guard, assuming the duties of a guard and a guard of honor, serving left and right at any time, and waiting for dispatch.
Because Gao Yuan is an agent, he has done some research on the most famous spy agency in ancient China, and he also has a considerable touch, so in the setting of official positions and functions, he also basically refers to the structure and name of Jinyiwei, and sets up a commander, who is the highest official of Jinyiwei, and the commander is the deputy of the commander; There are two town care divisions in the north and south, each with a town care envoy and two town care officials, who are always responsible for the affairs of each department.
Among them, the Nanzhen Fu Division is mainly responsible for collecting external intelligence, and sets up six divisions of Qin, Yan, Qi, Chu, Wei and Zhao, with one thousand households and two deputy thousand households in each division, and positions such as 100 households, general banners and small banners; The North Town Fu Division is responsible for internal security and security affairs, information collation, and formulation of action plans; It also knows that six divisions have been established, and the first and second divisions are responsible for internal reconnaissance and arrest and intelligence collection; The three divisions are responsible for internal security protection; The four divisions are responsible for analyzing intelligence and establishing data files; The Fifth Division is responsible for planning the action plan, and the Sixth Division is responsible for assassination, and the names of the departments and officials are also the same as those of the Nanzhen Fusi.
In normal times, the two divisions of the north and south should each pay their own responsibilities, but when they encounter serious matters, the two divisions of the north and south must also cooperate under the unified command of the highest officials. However, Gao Yuan did not want to turn Jinyiwei into a lawless spy agency of the Ming Dynasty, so he greatly restricted Jinyiwei's power. Compared with the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest difference is that there is no edict in the Jinyiwei, and there is no power to judge or convict.
In addition, although Jinyiwei has the power to arrest and interrogate, but Gao Yuan has also imposed many restrictions, which must not be abused, and the arrest and interrogation of officials must be approved by the most commanding officials or even Gao Yuan, and they cannot be detained indefinitely, after interrogation, if there is no conclusive evidence, they must be released, and if there is conclusive evidence, they will be handed over to a formal judicial organ for judgment and conviction.
Of course, at present, these institutions and official positions are only plans on paper, and the establishment of the entire organization will take time to gradually improve. However, Zhao Xuan also admired Gao Yuan for being able to come up with such a perfect plan, so he also selected personnel and made plans according to the plan formulated by Gao Yuan.
After the plans are determined, the next step is to implement, because whether it is the Fan Yong Army, the Scout Army or the Jinyi Guard, they are all troops and institutions that have been placed on the plateau with great expectations, so the plateau in the subsequent time, also put the main energy into the establishment of two armies and an institution, and Li Yinghong recruited more than 1,000 Xiongnu women, and was also very satisfied, and during this time, he also focused on training his own female army. The administrative affairs of Dai County were all handed over to Ning Qi, Shen Shen, and Geng Zhong.
Moreover, after more than a year of operation, the administrative system of Dai County has been able to operate very well, and now the area controlled by the plateau is not large, and after all affairs are straightened out, in fact, there is not much government affairs, and even Ning Qi, Shen Shen, and Geng Zhong feel that they are at ease, and they do not need to work on the plateau at all, and they can also devote their main energy to the affairs of establishing the army and institutions.
Of course, the newly established Fan Yong Army, Scout Army, and Jinyi Guard all have their own supervisors, so Gao Yuan does not interfere in the affairs of the club, but only manages, coordinates, supervises, and inspects as a whole, but this also causes Gao Yuan to run back and forth in these three institutions, and he is almost busy every day.
However, relatively speaking, the scout army has actually been formed, and now it is just to expand the scale, recruit more soldiers, collect the army's number of soldiers, and then train them, and the Fan Yong Army does not even need to recruit people, just to reorganize and train the existing people and manage them well. Therefore, the most difficult of them is actually Jinyiwei.
In fact, in this era, each country has its own intelligence agency, and there is a separate article in the thirteen articles of [Sun Xiao's Art of War], which is dedicated to the importance of collecting intelligence. And in this regard, the Qin State is the best, and there are many achievements, once successfully made the Zhao State with Zhao Kuo to replace Lian Po, won the victory of the Battle of Changping, separated the Xinling Jun and the Wei Anao King Guan, so that the Xinling Jun Yu Yu ended, relieved the Qin State of the confidants, and later in the battle to unify the six countries, and bought the Zhao State Guo Kai, Qi Hou Sheng and other powerful ministers, it can be said that the Qin State can finally unify the world, not only the national strength, the military strength, but also in terms of intelligence work, but also far stronger than other countries.
But on the whole, the intelligence work of this era is still at a very low level, not to mention that it cannot be compared with the current society, and there is also a big gap with the Jinyi Guard in another time and space. Although Jinyiwei's reputation in another time and space is not good, there are more destruction than transcriptions, and some people even blame the fall of the Ming Dynasty on Jinyiwei.
In fact, this is a big misunderstanding, Gao Yuan was born as an agent, and of course he knew that Jinyiwei still played a big role in the rule of the Ming Dynasty. In the foreign battles of the Ming Dynasty over the years, Jinyi Wei undertook the important task of collecting intelligence and spying on the secrets of the other party.
However, even in modern society, the reputation of the intelligence department is not very good, such as the famous intelligence agencies in modern society: the CIA, the CIA 7, the KGB, etc., in fact, they do not have a good reputation, because they are in film and television literary works, most of them play negative roles. Because no matter in that era, as long as there was a state as an institution, there would always be some things that could not be put on the table and could not be seen, and the intelligence services did this kind of thing, so of course the reputation would not go there. But no country is without such an institution.
Of course, Gao Yuan doesn't expect to make Jinyiwei an intelligence agency in modern society, but at least it can't be worse than Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty. After all, in this regard, Jiong Plateau's old profession still has considerable advantages.