At its peak, Juntong had about 45,000 agents. If you include peripheral personnel, Wu Zhuangyuan, and troops affiliated with and close to Dai Li, there were about more than 1 million people.

When Dai Li planned to establish the Secret Service on April 1, 1932, there were only 10 people. By the "July 7th Incident", the outbreak point of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, the number of Secret Service personnel surged to 3,600.

When the number exceeded 10,000 in 1939-1940, when the Sino-Japanese strategic stalemate was formed, the problem was that Dai Li probably did not fully know the exact number. Even if he knew it, he would not dare to report it to the Military Commission, otherwise Chiang Kai-shek would have turned against him long ago. .

After the Wannan Incident in 1941, the focus of the Kuomintang's defense was no longer on the Japanese invading forces. Therefore, the scope of work of the military reunification agents gradually expanded. In addition to the addition of the eight major divisions of the bureau headquarters, Dai Li established or controlled another with the support of Chiang Kai-shek. multiple subsidiaries. The total number of military commanders during this period is conservatively estimated at more than 30,000.

Before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of Wang puppets or traitor agencies and agents in North China surrendered. They also knew that Japan was about to be defeated and began to seek a way out. With Chiang Kai-shek's permission, Dai Li recruited Xu officials on a large scale, and by the end of the Anti-Japanese War How many people does the General Secretary of the Military Command have, 45,000 people?

In addition, the military commander also has the directly subordinate Rangers and the "Loyalty and National Salvation Army" of about 100,000 people, who have given priority to the distribution of American weapons. In this way, Dai Li directly controls no less than 150,000 people.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the military commander obtained the exclusive power to examine and punish traitors, so a large number of puppet generals secretly defected to Dai Li, and their troops were indirectly controlled by Dai Li, with a total strength of about 1 million.

Extended information:

There are two main reasons for the rapid expansion of Juntong. One is Dai Li’s extremely powerful means of amassing money. The other is the extremely strict internal organizational discipline of Juntong and rewards. The penalties are clear.

1. Unusual means of making money.

During the Anti-Japanese War, there were two main ways for Dai Li to make money:

The first was smuggling, the smuggling trade between the Japanese-occupied areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas. Due to the war, It is extremely developed, and the items smuggled in different areas are also different, ranging from opium, grain, and cotton to gasoline, medicine, and radio equipment.

Since Juntong is the actual controller of the Anti-Smuggling Agency of the Ministry of Finance and the Inspection Office of the Wartime Freight Administration, it can be said that the two major links of anti-smuggling and transportation are completely controlled by Juntong, so Juntong is naturally unique in smuggling. Convenient conditions, and the profits gained from it are naturally very generous.

The second channel is to print counterfeit banknotes. At that time, the Japanese army printed a large amount of counterfeit legal currency and put it into the Kuomintang-controlled areas in an attempt to disrupt the financial order in the Kuomintang-controlled areas. The military commander immediately treated others with their own medicine and printed currency in the areas occupied by the Japanese army.

The relevant personnel are the backbone of the business selected from the banknote printing factory of the Bank of China. The paper is specially customized from the United States, and the printing press is an American machine imported by the Bank of China. The currency produced in this way does not require It is difficult for ordinary people, even the experts of the Japanese army to identify counterfeit banknotes, to identify them.

2. Strict family laws.

Dai Li repeatedly emphasized that the military is a "big family" and emphasized the team spirit that "comrades are brothers and the group is family." Although the military command adopted the organizational form and activity methods of the Soviet Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States intelligence agencies, the organizational spirit was always based on the traditional Chinese values ??of benevolence, justice, loyalty, and filial piety.

In view of the special nature of the military system, Dai Li stipulated that as soon as he joins the military system, he must serve the military system for life, and female members of the military system can only marry members of the military system.

There is no dismissal in the military, and resignations are not accepted. Anyone who wants to resign will most likely face long-term imprisonment. Therefore, there is a famous saying circulated within the military: Stand up when you come in, and lie down when you leave.

For military commanders who violated discipline, Dai Li had three methods of punishment: verbal warning, solitary confinement and shooting. Usually there is no fixed trial procedure for punishment within the military system, and it is basically decided by Dai Li.

Nearly 2,000 people have been executed for violating discipline within the military, but these personnel still enjoy the treatment of martyrs as "maintaining the dignity and integrity of group discipline with their lives", and their families can also receive pensions and living expenses. ,tuition fee.

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