Chapter 24: The Dark Hours of the Political Department
Pan Qingtian worked as efficiently as he ate steak. After a Western meal, he immediately took Sheng Jiashu to the "White Room", the torture chamber of the Political Department in Mount Xingling, because his friend was in charge of interrogation work.
Sheng Jiashu is no stranger to the Department of Political Affairs. The first reason is that in his previous life, he cooperated with foreign capital, and most of the capital transactions had to go through Hong Kong. A large amount of capital flowed, and the company frequently dealt with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and other institutions. The second reason is that
I like to read the history of espionage. I have read a lot of espionage books on China's four major espionage cities, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tianjin. Although I don't know much about the Hong Kong espionage intelligence agency, I know a general outline.
Still no problem.
Although after 1997, Hong Kong no longer had the title of Political Department, what many people don’t know is that the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Jockey Club, and major banks accepted a large number of people who were politically motivated before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997.
The ICAC is a severance-employment agency, and because the ICAC is above all departments of the Hong Kong government, many older Hong Kong government officials sometimes refer to the ICAC after 1997 as the Hong Kong British Political Department 2.0.
In the previous life, many Hong Kong politicians said that Hong Kong valued personal privacy and the British colonial government respected human rights. Sheng Jiashu wanted to persuade them to read the history books. Hong Kong people had human rights. It was after the British Hong Kong Political Department was officially dissolved in 1996 that Hong Kong Governor Patten announced
The "Personal Privacy Ordinance" was implemented. Before 1996, Hong Kong residents did not have any human rights as far as the Hong Kong colonial government was concerned, and they might not even know how to spell the word privacy.
From the day it was established, the British Hong Kong Political Department has had the power to directly detain, search, investigate, collect, and store any individuals and personal information and items in Hong Kong without reporting to the Hong Kong colonial government and the Hong Kong Governor's Government. In short,
Even before the Political Department was disbanded, this organization had the power to make anyone in Hong Kong disappear without any reason. Compared with this department, the Independent Commission Against Corruption was as pure as a virgin.
Personal privacy was not mentioned during the hundred years of colonization. A year before the handover, after disbanding the Political Department, the Personal Privacy Ordinance was hastily introduced to declare that Hong Kong pays attention to human rights and privacy, turning the previous overriding of the law into a subject of legal supervision. Anyone who is not an idiot will understand this subtlety.
Knowing who to scold is the real thing.
However, the current British Hong Kong Political Department obviously has not expanded the scope of intelligence investigation to the entire Hong Kong and even penetrated into the mainland as it did in the previous life. The current British Hong Kong Political Department is more worried about other local intelligence forces in Hong Kong. In its own
To stir up trouble in the territory and carry out espionage or assassination activities.
The biggest headache for the British Hong Kong Political Department today is to deal with the assassinations of some generals or celebrities who fled to Hong Kong by Kuomintang agents. From 1948 to the present, in just one year, the number of Kuomintang generals and colonels assassinated in Hong Kong has
There were dozens of them, most of them were military personnel who were disappointed with the Kuomintang government and fled to Hong Kong to live in apartments, or were preparing to live temporarily in Hong Kong before going to other countries.
Secondly, it is a headache for the US intelligence agencies to fan the flames in Hong Kong but there is nothing they can do about it, because compared with the US intelligence agencies in Hong Kong, the British Hong Kong Political Department is simply a joke. Other intelligence agencies are not mentioned, only the US is placed in Hong Kong.
The U.S. Information Service Hong Kong Office (referred to as the U.S. Information Service) in the Ming Dynasty can make the Political Department feel ashamed. The entire British Hong Kong Political Department, including the cleaners, has only a little over two hundred people, while the U.S. Information Service
The agency has eight departments under its jurisdiction, with more than 700 employees on the surface. This does not include the spies and agents lurking in the dark. The job of the U.S. Information Service is to create anti-communist sentiments and actions, and provide resources and support to anti-communists.
Because many Kuomintang agents and spies have been trained by the U.S. intelligence agencies, they are equivalent to Kuomintang spies and agents. Coming to Hong Kong to perform tasks is equivalent to returning to their alma mater to ask the teacher to help explain their homework. They act like a duck in water, so they can succeed in many assassination operations.
The Political Department knew clearly that Americans were backing the Kuomintang, but they had no choice but to do nothing. It was no longer the age of the empire on which the sun never set, so they could only try to brainwash themselves. Everyone was white, they were vulgar country bumpkins, and we were London.
We are gentlemen, and we fought the German devils together. There is no need to quarrel with them over such a trivial matter and hurt the feelings of the two countries.
Problems that can obviously be solved by stopping the source, but because they dare not solve the source of the Americans, can only be confused by various assassinations and subversive activities caused by the source. This is considered a gloomy moment for the British Hong Kong Political Department. Most of the Political Department
The members' job is to go to work every day and then cut newspapers, or find Chinese informants to go to the streets, factories and other places to listen for rumors, or go to the telephone exchange to monitor some phone calls. Rather than being an intelligence department, it is more like a nursing home for the Hong Kong police force.
Everyone in the police force, whether British or Chinese, does not want to join the Political Department. Although after joining the Political Department, the position will be immediately promoted. For example, if you are a trainee inspector in the police force, if you join the Political Department, your title will become inspector.
If you are a police inspector and join the Political Department, you will be directly promoted to chief inspector. Why? Because you are tired and have no money.
Pan Qingtian's friend named Xia Qi, joining the Political Department is equivalent to being assigned, so what if his status becomes chief inspector? There are no employees below the supervisor level in the Political Department. When entering the Political Department, even if he is a Chinese, his title
There are trainee inspectors with higher heads than the detectives, but they are of no use. A trainee inspector who only knows how to cut newspapers, and a Chinese detective in the same jurisdiction, it is clear which one is more popular and which one has more power.
Sheng Jiashu did not expect Pan Qingtian to help him find a James Bond-style British agent. As long as he knew how to solve cases, it had nothing to do with him whether the agent helped make coffee or wash the toilet in the political department.
The environment in this area of Moxing Ridge is very complicated. Halfway up the mountain to the north of Moxing Ridge, a large number of shacks have been built. From a cursory glance, hundreds of shacks are densely packed. During the period of their stay, the men and women had sallow and thin faces, sad faces, and ragged clothes. These are all
The Kuomintang soldiers, military dependents and refugees who fled to Hong Kong after losing the civil war, because the Kuomintang ignored these people and did not provide any assistance, these people have almost become beggars in Hong Kong. Women, children, old and young can still rely on the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.
Po Leung Kuk provides some relief. In order to make a living, a large number of adult men will do some moneyless business such as stealing and robbery. Perhaps the owner of the watch shop that Sheng Jiashu met while passing by today and his family were robbed and killed. It is possible that the murderers are among these.
among people.
The location where Sheng Jiashu was at this time was the Victoria Detention Center. Because the walls of the building in the detention center were white, it was also known as the Mosingling White House. Target persons arrested by the Political Department would be brought here for interrogation and detention. Because of its location
Victoria Road, so it is also called Victoria torture room.
To the south of the detention center is the Kelong Wan Chinese Public Cemetery. Standing at the door of the detention center and looking south, the dense tombstones of different sizes rush into Sheng Jiashu's eyes. The poor and powerless people at the bottom will share this piece of land after death.
and peace, but now the deceased can no longer enjoy peace, because Sheng Jiashu watched nearly a hundred people wandering in the cemetery, either picking up poor tributes, or simply digging up more impressive-looking graves, trying to find something inside
Provide some valuable burial objects.
Two British soldiers outside the detention center were smoking with Sheng Jiashu while making fun of the grave digging within a hundred meters. They had no intention of maintaining order. From the reactions of the two soldiers, it can be seen that the British
People's attitude towards Hong Kong is that they don't care about the city, they only care about the interests of the British.
"This is Mr. Sheng, needs my help?" a male voice said.
Sheng Jiashu turned around, and a tall, thin, middle-aged British man walked out accompanied by Pan Qingtian. Their bodies, one fat and one thin, formed a perfect complement, which caused a huge impact on Sheng Jiashu's eyeballs.
"Mr. Xia Qi?" Sheng Jiashu extended his hand to the other party and responded with a smile.
Xia Qi stretched out his hand and held it with Sheng Jiashu. Sheng Jiashu felt that Xia Qi's palm was wet and cold, which made his palm feel uncomfortable at the moment of contact, and he clenched slightly subconsciously.
"Sorry, my hands have just been soaked in water for a while." Xia Qi sensitively noticed Sheng Jiashu's subtle body reaction and took the initiative to explain.
Sheng Jiashu shook his head: "It doesn't matter, Mr. Xia Qi, I'm more concerned about whether my lawyer told you my problem in complete detail."
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't come out to greet you. I heard that you had lunch with him, so now would be a good time to have a cup of afternoon tea. Come on, let's try the black tea from the Political Department." Xia Qi didn't.
Pan Qingtian was so talkative, but after finishing his brief remarks, he led Sheng Jiashu towards the detention center.
Just as Hao Wei was about to follow, Xia Qi turned to look at Hao Wei and shook his head: "Sir, excluding you, you are not my employer. Also, if you stand here, I can ignore the prohibited items on you. If you want
Once you walk in, the character is completely different."
"Brother Wei, wait for me here, thank you for your hard work." Sheng Jiashu said to Hao Wei.
Xia Qi led Sheng Jiashu towards the detention center and said as he walked: "Mr. Sheng, for the sake of the reward of two thousand pounds, I can try my best to ignore the weapons on your bodyguard when I work for you."
"Actually, what I want more is not drinking tea, I want to find out the truth." Sheng Jiashu exhaled and said.
Xia Qi turned sideways and looked at Sheng Jiashu: "That's why I invited you in for tea. Sir, I have already made a call. In the name of the Political Department, I collected all the information and physical evidence from the police about the family extermination case.
, the police force is sending a special person to deliver it, we can drink tea while waiting."
"High efficiency." Sheng Jiashu nodded slightly and said.
Xia Qi laughed: "Of course, although it is a gloomy moment for the Political Department now, for this small case, I think I can still make the employer feel that he hired a detective with the status of a staff of the Political Department, which is worth the money.
Chapter completed!