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In the late Xuantong years of the Qing Dynasty, in order to welcome the German crown prince who visited China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Qing Dynasty built a guest house on the former site of Baoyuan Bureau. //www.//i The State Guest House was specially used to welcome state guests. It was equivalent to the current State Guesthouse. It was the most luxurious Western building in Beijing at that time. After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, the Qing government began constitutional reform, and Yuan Shikai was appointed as the prime minister of the Qing government. After coming to Beijing from his hometown in Henan, Yuan Shikai set up the cabinet government in the Shidaren Hutong Guesthouse. Soon thereafter, Yuan Shikai brought his family to Beijing. Check into the guest house with him.
On March 10, the first year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai was sworn in as the interim president of the Republic of China in Beijing, and the Shidaren Hutong Guest House became the interim presidential palace. On August 24 of the first year of the year, Sun Yat-sen arrived in Beijing to meet with Yuan Shikai. In order to show respect, Yuan Shikai moved to the Army Department in Tieshihutong Hutong and used the Shidaren Hutong Guest House as Sun Yat-sen's temporary residence. When Sun Yat-sen left Beijing on September 18, 2001, Yuan Shikai ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang Government to be moved to the Guest House in Shidaren Hutong in Dongtangzi Hutong. From then on, Shidaren Hutong was renamed Foreign Ministry Street.
Just after the Spring Festival in the fourth year of the Republic of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs located in the Guest House moved out of the Guest House at the request of the President. The Guest House once again returned to its original appearance - the Guest House. Just a few months later, the Guest House was renamed again. ¡ª¡ªOfficial Residence of the Prime Minister.
In the early morning, when the pigeons chirped over the capital, Li Zicheng got up very early in the living room on the second floor of the Prime Minister's official residence. After eating a simple breakfast, he walked up the stairs to the first floor. The office is located on the first floor, facing the Western-style back garden of the official residence. Both the official residence and the garden were designed by Western designers. Compared with the Chinese-style garden, this French-style garden is more comfortable. Sometimes, when he has free time, Li Zicheng will even sit on a lounge chair in the back garden and bask in the sun.
Of course, the hot weather now is not suitable for basking in the sun. In this midsummer, Li Zicheng prefers to stay indoors. Under the influence of the central air conditioner, the indoor temperature is only 2, a very pleasant temperature. Because of this, Only then will many people feel that working in the Prime Minister's official residence is a kind of enjoyment in itself.
Just as Li Zicheng was standing by the window, looking at the back garden and drinking a cup of tea, Zhang Yilin, secretary-general of the Prime Minister's Office, came in at the right time and said:
"Your Excellency, Director Li Siqin of the Secret Service has arrived. The American Minister will meet with you around ten o'clock this morning."
The Secret Service was announced by the new Minister of Finance at the same time that Li Zicheng was sworn in as Prime Minister and appointed the State Council team as an agency "with the purpose of combating the manufacture of counterfeit currency." The reason for its establishment is very simple: "domestic "Foreign-made" and "privately-made" copper coins are flooding." Although foreign-made counterfeit copper coins have gradually withdrawn from the market at this time, they are far from comparable to privately cast copper coins. First of all, the main circulation scope of "foreign-made" copper coins It is the coastal area from north to south. Secondly, the cost of "foreign private casting" is still higher than that of private casting in China. What's more, the circulation scope of "private private casting" covers most provinces in the country, and counterfeiters are also present in most of the country. In some areas.
Because the government¡¯s efforts to crack down on counterfeiting are limited and there are no typical cases for those who preside over private forging, and because counterfeiters are very hidden and often collude with local officials and powerful people, it is difficult to make a clear judgment. This situation became even more serious during the Republic of China, because warlords themselves were often supporters, participants, and profiteers of counterfeiting. Moreover, the producers of domestic ¡°private affairs¡± are mainly businessmen, powerful landowners, underworld organizations, and local warlords, and they are often inextricably linked to each other.
As early as last year, the central government promulgated national currency regulations, allowing old copper coins to be temporarily used as auxiliary coins within a certain period of time. It is planned that the mint, together with the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, will exchange them for raw copper prices based on the pure copper they contain. After Li Zicheng became Prime Minister, he immediately used the "National Currency Regulations" to sign an order for the Ministry of Finance to establish a "Secret Service" to combat domestic "counterfeit currency."
Due to previous intelligence measures being established, the Treasury Secret Service, which had only a few hundred employees, cracked six major "private coining" cases on the third day after its establishment, involving amounts of millions of taels, and directly As a result, the Ministry of War was forced to dismiss one of the division commanders and three brigade commanders involved, and the illegal gains were confiscated through the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Finance received as much as 4.8 million taels of "illegal gains", and this money was directly Li Zicheng invested in Qian'an Iron and Steel Company in the name of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
In the eyes of outsiders, "crack down on counterfeiting" was the first thing Li Zicheng started after taking office of the State Council. Of course, they also saw that due to the "counterfeit currency case", there were more cases in Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Henan, Shandong and other provinces. Several officials were removed from their posts by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for investigation, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs later bypassed the local areas and directly appointed local officials, and most of those local officials were local National Socialist Party members.
¡°Cracking down on fakes is fake, and robbing officials is real!¡±
There are many comments from the outside world about this, but in the face of these remarks, Li Zicheng just laughed it off.In their eyes, they only saw the cooperation of various ministries of the State Council, but did not see things beyond the cooperation, such as the "Treasury Secret Service". Although this agency was established by the Ministry of Finance, its director was directly responsible to the Prime Minister.
Only two months after its establishment, the Secret Service of the Ministry of Finance has set up branches in every province in the country with the help of the "Combating Counterfeit Currency". At the same time, it has grown from less than 500 employees at the beginning to more than 2,000 now. Now, the Secret Service It has become an intelligence agency directly under the State Council.
This is the first intelligence agency established by the State Council. It completely bypasses the Longhai Company Security Department and is instead a "national" intelligence agency, although most of its personnel are "recruited" directly from the Security Department.
"Okay, let Director Li come in. i "
As soon as Li Siqin, who looked a little thin, entered the office, he took out some information from his wallet and spread it out on the Prime Minister's desk. He briefly summarized the intelligence collected in January:
"In the past two months, in accordance with your arrangements, the Secret Service has not only concentrated its efforts on the counterfeit currency manufacturing, bandits, and local forces in various provinces in the country, but we have also strengthened the monitoring of counterfeit money, bandits, and local forces in various countries, especially the United Kingdom, the United States, France, The embassies of Russia and Japan in China are conducting surveillance, but so far, no noteworthy trends have been discovered.¡±
It seems that Li Siqin is helpless about this result. The monitoring of embassies in various countries can only rely on one method, which is the deciphering of telegraph codes. Although the training school of the Ministry of Security has opened a cryptography major as early as two years ago, We also recruited mathematics experts from China to learn code-breaking and established a relatively effective code-breaking team.
After the establishment of the Secret Service, the Sixth Division of the Ministry of Security was directly integrated into the Secret Service. However, many technical problems were still encountered in deciphering diplomatic telegrams from various countries. The most important problem was the shortage of deciphering personnel, and this The problem cannot be solved in the short term.
In order to solve this problem, at the request of the Secret Service, Li Zicheng approved a plan just half a month ago.
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