"War is the continuation of politics", Wei Changrong simply gave Wang Mingshan and Pang Congcong a strategy lesson. The opening sentence made two officials who had gone through the war years but did not actually fight suddenly feel enlightened.

Weeser's overall grand strategy may be called wishful thinking, but from the point of view of the planning of the war itself, there is nothing fantastic about the whole strategy itself. In the final analysis, it is the origin of raw materials and the new land. Now the Chinese population is large, there are many people and few places, and the new land is a territory that can support a large number of immigrants.

"I used to think the Governor was belligerent, but now I don't think so. Compared with the external solution of internal problems, the Governor actually paid more attention to the development of the domestic productive forces, and the war was not so much an end as a means of solving the problems of the Governor. If the Governor had been a belligerent man, he would not have accepted the position and mediation of the British in the Dutch East Indies. That's a must-fight. Wei Changrong also made some defenses for Wei Ze.

As a man, Wang Mingshan agrees with Wei Changrong's point of view that belligerence is to fight. Weeser avoided war after reaching the bottom line, which was by no means a choice reserved for belligerents.

Pang Congcong's thinking is different, Wei Ze doesn't fight now, but he still has to fight later. Morning is also a fight, and late is also a fight. Since fighting is already an inevitable result, isn't this belligerent? The difference between irons and non-irons is that Pang Congcong frankly put forward his own opinions.

Wei Changrong didn't care about Pang Congcong's questioning, he replied: "In the future, the balance of power between us and the British is in favor of our side, and we can get more after fighting." This is the choice of war after calculating the interests, and it is not the choice of the war before calculating the interests, and the starting point is completely different. And the governor said some strategic issues, which I don't understand, so I can't tell you. Roughly speaking, industrial society is talking about productivity, and when there is a surplus of productivity, it needs to be released, just as the water in a reservoir needs to be released when it is full. There are also some outdated and backward, just like the reservoir needs to be dredged. All in all, it's a complicated content. The general meaning is that foreign wars are a means of solving domestic problems, but the whole country is by no means for the sake of war. ”

This set of strategic theories was too advanced for people in the 19th century, and even less for senior Chinese officials with a relatively low level of knowledge of industrialization. The elimination of backward production capacity and the priority of new technologies in the war to promote industrial development were all systematically discussed in World War II. For China, which is now just beginning to industrialize, it is too advanced and too advanced, and even Wei Changrong cannot fully understand it. When talking about overcapacity in an era that can almost be called absolute scarcity, it is not geniuses who can really understand, but eccentrics.

In the few days on the train, Wang Mingshan and Pang Congcong have benefited a lot, the increase in knowledge is only a small part, and the breadth and improvement of strategic vision is the most important. When a person looks at a problem from the perspective of the whole country, what was originally a big problem often becomes a non-problem, and what was originally a small problem becomes a huge problem.

The triad problem is only seen from a local perspective, but in fact it is just a troublesome local dispute. From a national perspective, it is a big problem of grabbing the market. The erosion of national dominance at the local level may be acceptable to local governments, but it is impossible for the state to accept it.

Wei Changrong also stayed in Guangdong for several years, and his arrival shocked the entire Guangdong party and government departments. After taking over the post of secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, he made a speech at a meeting of the provincial party committee that "no organized criminals will be allowed to confront the national economic order."

Zuo Zongtang, a cadre at the deputy department level in Hunan Province, was also transferred to Guangdong Province to take charge of the work of the propaganda department, and his rank was also raised to the level of a full department. A cadre at the department level became a member of the Standing Committee, which can be regarded as shaking the political scene in Guangdong, and everyone thought that his promotion to the deputy department level cadre was just around the corner. Cadres at the department and bureau level are at the fifth administrative level, the deputy is at the sixth administrative level, and the senior cadres at the department and bureau level and above are senior state cadres.

It is undoubtedly a very shocking thing that a demoted general should have the opportunity to become a high-ranking cadre. In addition to Zuo Zongtang, the one who can become a member of the new government is probably Li Hongzhang, who became a section chief in Anhui. Beyond that, no former Manchu official could become a member of the new government's civil service, let alone a member of the Liberation Party. Although the status of Director Zuo and Section Chief Li is not high, their reputation is far beyond their administrative rank.

Zuo Zongtang is very arrogant today, and if he is given this official position, he will be generous to let go of his work. Several meetings were held with the comrades of the party school, specific investigations were conducted, and a signed article entitled "The Market Economy Shall Not Be Monopolized by the Mafia" was published in the organ newspaper "Guangdong Daily."

The article analyzes the prices of vegetables in the four seasons of Guangzhou in the past five years with detailed figures, and lists the intervention time of the vegetable market to bully and dominate the market. After the comparison, there were obvious signs of an increase in the price of vegetables. As the monopoly of the underworld in the Guangzhou farmers' market increased, the price of vegetables also continued to increase. With the stability of the underground order, the price of vegetables will be stable at the highest point and maintained.

In contrast to this figure, it is a comprehensive disclosure of the practices of triad organizations that forcibly prevent farmers from entering the city, buy farmers' vegetables at low prices halfway, and collect protection fees from various stalls, as well as various fees charged. The total amount of these expenses is calculated, and the residents of Guangzhou have to pay tens of millions of additional expenses every year. The money did not go into the state treasury, nor did it come to the residents of Guangzhou, but was obtained by the underworld.

After the publication of this series of articles, it caused a huge repercussion in society. Tens of millions of dollars is an astronomical amount for ordinary people in Guangdong who have an annual income of less than 1,000 yuan, and if this money is in the hands of the state, everyone will be fine, but this money has flowed into the hands of hooligan organizations that have been characterized by the state as triads, and this is absolutely unacceptable to the masses.

As the communicators between the government and the people's will, the people's congress deputies are people who can speak to the government in the eyes of the ordinary people, and the masses demand that the people's congress deputies go to the government and tell the government that they must severely punish these bad people. The deputies to the National People's Congress are the representatives of the workers and peasants, who are the cornerstone of the Liberation Party and the new government. At present, the cadres in the new government are basically from the military, and even if there is no system, the deputies to the people's congress can still talk to the government, and their words are taken seriously.

"Director Zuo is doing this, I think he is stirring up contradictions." The director of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau said angrily at the meeting.

"Where's that?" Zuo Zongtang's old god asked. He is not yet 57 years old, and he is definitely an old guy compared to the group of young cadres of the Liberation Army. The old guy naturally has the style of the old guy, Zuo Zongtang is calm and relaxed.

"What do you mean by writing that? Didn't you write that article saying that there were people in the government who took money from the underworld, so you ignored them. We've called the police so many times for the farmer's market, and that's in vain? "The director of the public security bureau is in his thirties, and he is young and vigorous, and he is completely unacceptable to be accused of being so blamed, even if it is secretly accused.

Wang Mingshan, Pang Congcong, and Wei Changrong were all silent, as if the conflict in front of them was just a friendly conversation and laughter among everyone. As an airborne cadre, Zuo Zongtang didn't look at the three of them, he said in a calm tone: "Is there anyone who has received money, the results of our investigation are there, and there is a list." Accusations are definitely not available, we just did a survey and then wrote the investigation into a report......"

"You can't write nonsense when writing a report! And you didn't show the report to the provincial party committee, but published it for the masses to discuss, what is your intention? "The director of the public security bureau was born in a military background, and it is the habit of the army to obey his superiors, and being scolded by his superiors is also scolded, which is an internal problem. can be questioned and criticized by the people, it is a bad reputation, Zuo Zongtang came up and detained a sewage basin for the Public Security Bureau, this practice can't help but anger him.

"You mean I'm making up the news?" Zuo Zongtang still asked calmly.

"You must be making it up!" The chief of public security said loudly without hesitation.

"Have you read that report?" Zuo Zongtang then asked.

"How?" Seeing that Zuo Zongtang did not back down in the slightest, the director of the Public Security Bureau was even more angry, "You are making nonsense, and you want me to go and see it, can I watch it!" ”

"If you haven't even seen it, how do you know I'm making it up. It doesn't make sense. Zuo Zongtang continued with the old god still there.

"You ......" The director of the public security bureau didn't expect Zuo Zongtang to play such a little trick in words, and such a set of logic was deduced, which turned the dignified public security chief who felt that he was full of reason into a foolish person who began to criticize the article and talk nonsense without even reading the article.

Zuo Zongtang was not happy that he had skillfully suppressed the director of the public security bureau, and he continued to say calmly: "This investigation is the work of the Propaganda Department and the Party School, and the people who questioned it have detailed records and signatures. We checked what they said, went to the public security bureau to verify it, and checked the police dispatch records and interrogation records. We have not accepted the statements that only have lone evidence. If you suspect that we are cheating, point out where we are cheating. Please don't come up and give us a hat first. The Manchu Qing will do this kind of bird thing! ”

The director of the public security found that he couldn't argue with Zuo Zongtang verbally, but in fact, he already wanted to scold Zuo Zongtang for being a Manchu lackey. Unexpectedly, Zuo Zongtang would explain the work process of his meticulous investigation so clearly, and even take out the style of the Manchu Qing Dynasty first. This made the public security chief completely speechless for a while.

When they pointed to a certain paragraph in the newspaper and scolded Zuo Zongtang for fabricating facts and slandering the Public Security Bureau, the busy director of the bureau became angry. He didn't like to read newspapers in the first place, and many of his subordinates came to say this, and he wouldn't read them even when he was angry. Knowing that someone was saying bad things about the Public Security Bureau, the idea of fighting back had already occupied the vast majority of his thinking.

Although he was even more convinced that Zuo Zongtang was a treacherous person at this time, the public security chief found that he still had to read the newspaper first after he went back. Before reading the newspaper, the director of the public security bureau really couldn't refute many of Zuo Zongtang's words immediately.