Zheng Silang, the military representative at the Siping Automobile Manufacturing Plant, heard that Wang Bin had come to visit. Thinking of the official document he had just finished reading not long ago, he was truly curious.

Wang Bin also graduated from the Baoding Military Academy. After Duan Qirui forcefully intervened in its personnel affairs, this school was considered to have a very strong Anhui clique color. Therefore, after He Rui's rise, graduates were very interested in serving in the Northeast. However, very few students were accepted. Wang Bin was one of the three graduates accepted after Zheng Silang's class.

The reason was simple: the Northeast had already built its own military academy.

Seeing his junior brother walk in openly in a black uniform, Zheng Silang stood up to shake hands with Wang Bin. After the two sat down, Wang Bin immediately presented a plan. "Big Brother Zheng, this is the Security Bureau personnel recruitment plan I wrote."

Zheng Silang took it and flipped through it quickly. After becoming the military representative at the automobile manufacturing plant, Zheng Silang had to learn speed reading. A car had several systems, dozens of types of components, and thousands of parts. Reading slowly, there simply wasn't enough time.

After reading it quickly, Zheng Silang circled a few key points in his mind and put the document on the table.

Wang Bin hurried to say, "Big Brother Zheng, I came here to ask for advice."

"Don't say these things; get to the point," Zheng Silang answered decisively. This was also experience accumulated from being a military representative in the factory. When he first arrived at the automobile manufacturing plant, Zheng Silang had several times discussed a small problem back and forth with workers and technicians in the factory for hours, or even more than ten hours. There was even an instance where one problem took several days.

Since then, Zheng Silang clarified the working method of a military representative: one can no longer want everything. If one blindly seeks the root cause, one would have to start from various natural laws; such things should be left to universities and specialized laboratories to solve.

Wang Bin was straightforward too and immediately said, "I want to recruit Security Bureau staff from workers and rural cadres. I wonder what Big Brother Zheng thinks?"

Zheng Silang immediately stated what he cared about. "I see you defined the work of the Security Bureau as eliminating organized disruption of normal government operations, industrial and agricultural production, propaganda, and education order. Isn't this jurisdiction too broad?"

"To catch bad guys, we must define bad guys. Based on the methodology of seeing the essence through phenomena learned in the Party School, I made several logical propositions. I found that if the goal is catching bad guys, logically it's very easy to change from catching bad guys to catching foreigners, catching people from forces outside the Northeast. This is an emergency measure, not the work content of the Security Bureau."

"This is interesting; tell me in detail." Zheng Silang revealed a smile. Hearing insightful enlightenment made Zheng Silang quite happy.

"There are definitely bad guys in foreign countries, enemies hostile to China. I also heard Director Morrison say that he and the British Minister to China Jordan both love China very much..."

Zheng Silang laughed out loud with a 'ha'. Morrison running to the Northeast did do some work for the Northeast, but Zheng Silang felt Morrison was more for his own interests. As for the saying 'loving China', hearing it, just smile politely and that's it.

Jordan, as the British Minister to China, represented British interests. It was inappropriate for him to say he 'loved China'.

Wang Bin didn't mind. "If we assume all foreigners come with the purpose of harming China, the solution is to drive all foreigners away. That is not the scope of work of the Security Bureau."

Zheng Silang felt Wang Bin's thinking was very clear. Expelling all foreigners in China was the government's power. If such a thing happened, the Security Bureau would just be a department ordered to participate in the work. Zheng Silang continued to talk about this issue. "Wang Bin, which factories do you want to recruit from? What are the criteria?"

"Passing political review alone is not enough; there must be some more reliable guarantees. This is what I find most troublesome right now. Big Brother Zheng, you have been a military representative in the factory for almost a year; do you think guarantees should be set? If you think they should, how to set them to recruit people?"

This question stumped Zheng Silang. The Security Bureau was still responsible for catching bad guys, and catching bad guys meant fighting. Workers were organized and disciplined, and should perform very well on the battlefield. Zheng Silang came from an escort agency family and felt the Security Bureau was the kind of role closer to hand-to-hand combat, subduing the enemy with one move. This was not the strong point of workers.

Just as he thought of this, there was a knock on the door. Zheng Silang shouted, "Come in."

A skilled worker pushed the door open. "Representative Zheng, there is a meeting this afternoon; please attend."

"Okay," Zheng Silang responded. After the skilled worker left, Zheng Silang said, "Wang Bin, your view is quite good; I don't have my own view either. Today..."

However, looking at his junior brother looking at him eagerly, Zheng Silang couldn't help softening his heart. He simply told Wang Bin about the distinction he saw between the combat effectiveness of workers and rural cadres versus the Security Bureau.

Wang Bin shook his head repeatedly. "Big Brother Zheng, what you are talking about are the police and the Defense Bureau. Our Security Bureau actually doesn't do this work. I wrote very clearly in the document: the Security Bureau only checks who is engaging in organized sabotage. When action is really taken, the Security Bureau still has to ask the public security and defense departments to send people. Now there are tens of thousands of police in the Northeast, and each unit has its own Defense Division and Defense Section. These units catch people in the act through patrols. Big Brother Zheng, this is not the same job."

Hearing this, Zheng Silang felt he had a new feeling about his view of the Security Bureau, or rather Wang Bin's concept of the Security Bureau. But the meeting was about to start, so Zheng Silang stood up. "Wang Bin, leave the document for me to read. I think your view is very inspiring; precisely because of this, I have to straighten out my thoughts. How about this, I'll give you a reply tomorrow."

Wang Bin also stood up. "Big Brother Zheng, thanks."

The two went out the door together. When they walked to the building entrance and prepared to separate, Wang Bin suddenly remembered a sentence. "Big Brother Zheng, the work of the Security Bureau will definitely involve some fighting and killing, but the Security Bureau is a technical department. A technical department engaging in analysis and research."

At this time, Zheng Silang somewhat understood Wang Bin's thoughts, but conversely couldn't imagine what the Security Bureau in Wang Bin's mind should look like.

This ignorance was actually a good thing. Since he didn't know, he just had to complete the work he was responsible for.

Wang Bin went to several other units, such as the Siping Institute of Technology. The persons in charge of these units hadn't even had military careers. Wang Bin was more relaxed, only asking these units when he could come to hold recruitment meetings.

Leaving Siping, which currently had the highest industrial level in the entire Northeast, and returning to the office in Shenyang, someone immediately delivered a document. After reading it, it took Wang Bin a few seconds to remember Wang Donglu from Tsinghua School.

The document informed Wang Bin that Wang Donglu's family were Beiyang officers, so he was inquiring about which unit the Northeast Army wearing black uniforms belonged to.

This kid didn't seem stupid enough to want revenge. Wang Bin was quite puzzled by Wang Donglu's action.