Chapter 497: The Way Out of Life (12)

"Consideration on the restoration of 'Yunmengze'", Qi Rui read the content of the latest bulletin, and couldn't help but feel that Daddy Wei Ze was really a strange person. www.biquge.info It is clearly written in the briefing that Yunmengze is a complex of a series of large lakes and waterways in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the gradual shrinking of Yunmengze is of course due to changes in the natural environment, but the industrious and brave Chinese people have been surrounding the lake for thousands of years and making fields so that the huge water system referred to by this ancient term has been terribly damaged.

Weser used a figurative analogy, a large bowl of water is poured into a water cup, and the small cup will naturally be filled quickly and leaked out in large quantities. A large bowl of water poured into a large bath has a very limited effect on the water level. The benefits of restoring Yunmengze include that there is no need to worry about the harm of flooding in the Yangtze River to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The restoration of wetlands, lakes and waterways is itself a benefit of the natural environment.

There are also disadvantages, many waterside fields in the Yangtze River basin and the Huai River basin will disappear. However, with the current land and grain production of the Minmin Dynasty, this disappearing land is not a problem at all. Another disadvantage is that various rivers need to be dredged manually, which is almost a waste of public money, and Wei Ze believes that systematic planning can be carried out and completed year by year.

After reading the briefing, Qi Rui no longer knew how to evaluate his father Wei Ze's actions, and in the previous paragraph, Wei Ze also discussed whether he tried to restore the stable Yellow River channel system from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty after the Yellow River moved north. In the Han Dynasty, the Yellow River was rectified, and in addition to the Yellow River, the Bian Canal was also excavated, and then the river system was stabilized for about 1,000 years. And that 1,000 years was a very prosperous year for Chinese civilization.

Regarding the opinion of Comrade Wei Ze, Qi Rui and the people of the Min Dynasty reacted similarly, since Comrade Emperor has an intention, everyone just needs to consider the time to follow suit. Questioning the emperor's decisions often proved to be self-defeating.

The Liberation Army refused privileges, and this concept of nostalgia made the reading of the briefing also adopt the mode of reading a paragraph per person. After the various accents take turns, it is time to move on to the next link. Discuss the specifics.

Qi Rui took out the report, "Comrades, the Central Committee replied to us. With regard to the construction of the Great Wall, many comrades believe that the work of the people and the loss of money is very inefficient. Instead, the money should be used to build a modern border defense system. The Central Military Commission officially replied to us that the purpose of building the Great Wall was to increase the public's identification with North America. When we think of the Great Wall, we think of it as the Great Wall of our Asian part. Now that there is a Great Wall in North America, it is natural for our people to feel that it has been around since ancient times......"

The commissioners of the North American Military Region were dumbfounded, they had been in the military for decades, and such a strange explanation was really unheard of. For soldiers, the Great Wall is not simply a city wall, it is a military system that integrates communications, transportation, troop transfer, and reconnaissance. With the current military technology, the Great Wall is outdated and completely out of date.

It can be seen that the Military Commission is well aware of the military effect of the Great Wall, because the Military Commission did not consider the military significance of the Great Wall at all. The purpose of this kind of labor and wealth is to make the Chinese people have a false impression. That's right, it's an illusion. Through the illusion of thinking, the people feel that North America has been Chinese territory since ancient times. It's like stealing the bell.

Qi Rui finished reading the reply from the Military Commission to everyone, and someone immediately asked: "What is this...... Whose opinion. ”

The question representing the voice of the members of the North American Military Region made Qi Rui feel a little ashamed in his heart, and he handed the document to the committee members, and the committee members passed it on one by one. The most critical signature position was Weese's name, so everyone fell silent.

Silence, silence, and finally someone spoke, "I think this is a thousand-year plan, at least a century-old plan." Just like Yunmengze and the Yellow River in the Han Dynasty, if you want to restore it to that time, it will take decades or hundreds of years. If the two Great Walls of North America are completed, after a few decades, everyone will think that the Great Wall will also be a very long thing in North America. ”

Faced with this almost strong explanation, even Qi Rui felt a little embarrassed. But if Wei Ze's opinion is completely unreasonable, Qi Rui thinks that it is not like that. Qi Rui found that he had really never encountered such a dilemma before, and the troops insisted on a black-and-white attitude, and it felt really wrong for such a difficult thing to judge clearly.

Seeing that the meeting was a little unpromotable, Qi Rui quickly thought about it in his mind, and then he found the answer in a flash of inspiration. "Our military region looks at this issue from a purely military point of view. I think that's the opinion of everyone, right? Qi Rui asked.

It is true that the soldiers looked at this issue from a purely military point of view, and of course everyone expressed their agreement.

Recognized by the comrades, Qi Rui was greatly relieved, and he continued: "The Military Commission considers this issue from a political perspective. Do you agree with this view? ”

The soldiers are straightforward, but it doesn't mean that the soldiers are stupid. Qi Rui analyzed the problem from the root, and the comrades immediately understood. It is difficult to say whether the people's association with the Great Wall is a political issue, but this association is by no means a military consideration. Figuring out the key to the problem and getting the approval of the comrades, Political Commissar Qi Rui continued: "Let's send a telegram to the Military Commission and tell the Military Commission what we think. Since we are undertaking the construction work, the time is not particularly urgent, ask the Military Commission clearly about the military use of the Great Wall, and we can participate in the design. It would be nice if the Military Commission figured out what we had in mind and didn't let us participate in the design. ”

Political Commissar Qi Rui's words made the comrades feel suddenly enlightened, once many things are straightened out from the root, the thinking is natural and clear, and how to choose will naturally be there.

Solving such a troublesome problem, Qi Rui immediately entered a new problem. The layout of the Republic of China in North America has been basically completed, and the young immigrants are also in place. When internal problems are no longer the most urgent goal, it is natural for people to think about external problems. Moreover, the land that is easy to fall into the Caribbean has fallen into the hands of the Americans, and those areas that can still hold on are the areas where the United States is now difficult to act. Whether to support it and how to support it are all things that the North American Military District needs to consider.

There were now four theaters of operations in North America, the southern theater of operations against Mexico and the northern theater of operations against the United Kingdom. In addition to these two land theaters, there are two maritime theaters. The purpose of the Atlantic theater of operations is to counter a possible attack from the North Atlantic, while the Caribbean theater of operations is aimed at threats from the Caribbean region.

As a result of the discussions, it was decided that the Southern Theater would be the responsible unit for supporting the countries of the Caribbean. Li Yannian, the commander of the theater of operations, was not extremely excited because he received such a task, and he even looked worried. Qi Rui smiled: "This is a very hard job, and our comrades who go to Caribbean countries also have a great risk. As long as they are engaged in actual combat, there will inevitably be casualties. We all know that. ”

At this time, the commanders of the North American Military Region were all cutting-edge people who had experience in war, and it was natural that they would die on the battlefield and would not be misunderstood. With the hatred between China and the United States, if the battle is lost and falls into the hands of the Americans, there is probably only a dead end left. These soldiers, who have experienced several years of war, know that such a harsh environment is very unfavorable to the performance of the army, and the command of those who suffer from gains and losses is very easy to malfunction. The soldiers who can still maintain their composure in such a harsh environment are all talents that these commanders absolutely agree with. Let them face such a level of danger, these commanders are really reluctant.

Li Yannian said with a bitter face: "It's not that I'm worried that the battle will be difficult to fight. Whether it's good or not, you have to fight. I am only worried now that this kind of guerrilla warfare in the mountains has been fully developed through this war, and even developed into a system. If we encounter it in the future, it will be a very headache. This...... This is the system proposed by the Governor. ”

If the ferocity of the enemy and the inability of friendly forces made it difficult for the soldiers of the North American Military Region, Li Yannian's words made everyone fall into a state of speechlessness. For the young men, when they doubted Weese's military prowess, they would probably have believed that the sun was a triangle rather than a circle. The motorized infantry and even the air force, which the Liberation Army is proud of, have lost their ability to act in the mountains.

The time and place are favorable, and the movement warfare and guerrilla warfare in the mountainous areas have an advantage in terms of geography and people. All of you here are excellent soldiers, and they all know the cruelty and horror of war, so they do not arrogantly think that the Liberation Army can win a great victory in mountain sports warfare and guerrilla warfare.

It was in this depressed depression that Qi Rui spoke. "The Governor has said that we probably won't expand our territory in the future. In other words, it is basically impossible for us to go to war on foreign soil. Then whether foreign countries have mastered mountain sports warfare and guerrilla warfare is insignificant for us. If what we are guarding is peace, how can foreign countries engage in mountain warfare in their own countries, and what do we have to do with it? If a country dares to attack the territory of the Republic of China, we have mastered mountain movement warfare and guerrilla warfare, which will only lead to a dead end for the invaders. The perfection of this tactic can only help us, not harm. ”

This time, Qi Rui made clear his political attitude from the very beginning, and the country's war and peace were a political issue. As a political commissar, Qi Rui must solve everyone's confusion through political views. In terms of effect, it's not bad. These soldiers who were born and died on the front line, who knew the horrors of war, did not have the enthusiasm to start the war. Therefore, they believed that if the Liberation Army was only defending the peace of the existing territory of the Republic of China, the mountain movement warfare and guerrilla warfare in other places would not pose a threat to the Liberation Army at all.

If you are no longer afraid, things will be easier to do. It is difficult to get a team of hundreds of people overseas in the whole army, but it is far from being impossible. The difficulty in this matter is probably in terms of ideological education, so that the Republic of China can change from the idea of opening up the army to expanding the territory to defending the homeland and defending the country in an extreme period of time, especially the idea of supporting foreign people to defend the homeland and the country, and the military region is not particularly confident. Qi Rui and the others decided to personally review it, hoping to build this kind of team as soon as possible to represent the direction of the political and ideological work of the future Liberation Army.

The meeting ended after the direction of work was decided. Everyone began to get busy within their own scope of work, and Qi Rui's work was more about taking responsibility, so at this time, he looked a little more leisurely. Qi Rui stood in front of the window, looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, reflecting on his work experience in the past six months. The final conclusion is that 'political and ideological work should be stepped up.'

Politics is a system, a direction. Talking about politics alone is air-to-air, and naturally it will not work. But it is not at all okay to talk about the gains and losses of everything without talking about politics. As Qi Rui's father Wei Ze said, you can't just bury your head in pulling the car, you have to look up at the road.

Snowflakes are falling outside the window, and you can't see clearly from a place that is not too far away. Qi Rui, who has participated in snow marching and survival training near the Arctic Circle, knows that in order to see through everything and find the right path, it depends on luck in addition to eyesight. And his father's kind of person who relied on overwhelming power to find everything right is really rare and rare. At least Qi Rui himself doesn't think of himself as a daddy. But because he realized this, Qi Rui found that he really wanted to shorten the distance between himself and his father Wei Ze by his own efforts.

Thinking of this, Qi Rui let out a long sigh. He returned to his seat, took out the 'Program for Strengthening the Building of Party Organizations in North America,' which he had been planning long ago, and began to revise it with his head in his head. Today's discussion has made Qi Rui even more convinced that political problems are by no means confronted only by the central authorities, and that comrades at the grassroots level may need more the ability to understand right from wrong. And this ability is undoubtedly proportional to the political cognition of rain.

In April 1893, all 500 men were ready to assist the countries of the Caribbean. In May, the training in the mountainous area ended. Also in May, the outline for the construction of the Great Wall of North America was finalized. The shipping lanes between Asia and North America are filled with a constant stream of ships transporting people to North America, as well as ships transporting commodities from North America to and from North America.

And if Cyrus works hard in a Caribbean side port?? If Engineer Smith could see the number and tonnage of the ships of the Min Dynasty, the water in his whole body would probably turn into greedy saliva and roll out. Cyrus at this time?? Engineer Smith was wearing a thick heat-resistant suit and sunglasses as he worked with other engineers on the pouring of large metal parts. If you want to process large metal parts, you need large machinery. Those large-scale equipment cannot rely on standard machining, and can only be controlled by manual methods. This requires a large number of experienced engineers and technicians.

Even from a distance, the heat emitted from the furnace makes the entire workshop look like hell. The crashing of metal parts, the rattling of thick chains, and the pungent smell of all sorts of things. The heat, the loud noise, the smell was terrible, and the whole workshop was like hell. Engineers, technicians, and workers work hard in such an environment. Naturally, engineers have long been designed to do what to do when and what to do, but whether it can be operated accurately requires experience, technology and even some luck.

A few hours passed, and the workers all changed shifts in three shifts, Cyrus?? Smith engineers, they finally switched to the process. The engineer didn't know how much water he had drunk, and when he walked off the workbench with the hot handrail and was about to walk out of the factory, he just left the handrail, and he knelt on the ground with weak legs. I tried my best several times and couldn't stand up.

This is not uncommon, and the experienced man next to him lifted the engineer and lifted him out of the factory. The engineer held out for hours, and this is what makes everyone feel strange.

The next day, Cyrus?? Engineer Smith arrives at the construction site with the final touches on a huge metal casting, and it won't be long before this guy is sent to the factory to become the pillar of the workshop. As a former industrial powerhouse, or at least a top producer, Americans understand the importance of metalworking. The workshop is in shifts, and there is no time to stop at all.

Another engineer, Carnegie, was on duty and saw Cyrus?? Engineer Smith came over, and he came up and said, "Smith, you better go back and rest." If you're tired, we're no one else. ”

Smith shook his head, "I can't sleep. The recent situation has not been good. If our military factories can start mass production, these problems can be solved. ”

If in 1892, the Caribbean countries and South American countries thought that the United States was a candle in the wind, anyone could come up and step on it. By 1893, the countries of the Caribbean and South America understood that no matter how bad the United States was, these countries could not bully them at will. In particular, the United States did not despair in a desperate situation, and through a comprehensive change of the system, it changed from a federal system to a unitary system, and from a plate of loose sand to a twisted rope. People who still have hope and confidence in the United States as a country have once again rallied and burst out with amazing fighting power.

Not long ago, in March, the United States annihilated more than 200,000 South American and Caribbean coalition forces in one fell swoop. They were subjected to cruel treatment, and the United States did not release any of the prisoners. The population of South American countries is already small, and one guy has lost 200,000 young people, especially the regular army with war experience. The countries were in complete panic, and then, for the first time in the world, the once-hostile South American countries formed a combined fleet and stormed the Caribbean Sea in an attempt to annihilate the American navy.

South American countries do not have an overwhelming advantage in army equipment, but the navies of South American countries are different, and the main ships of their navy are imported from Europe. The U.S. Navy was swept away by the Chinese Navy thousands of miles away in the war, and for a time the U.S. Navy was in a predicament. Fortunately, the previous central U.S. government made a strategic decision to shift the majority of the population from the Caribbean islands to Colombia and Venezuela.

Now that both countries are almost in the hands of the United States, nearly 2 million square kilometers of land, these 10 million Americans are not crowded at all. The only question for the United States is how soon it will be able to restore its industry to the point where it is capable of carrying out an expedition. It was not a counteroffensive expedition against the North American continent, but an expedition against the South American powers of Brazil, Argentina, Chile.

The central government of the United States did not have an ambitious plan to annex all of South America, and all they expected was to force Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to choose a truce with the United States through war to give the United States some respite.

Cyrus?? Engineer Smith was also one of those who could listen to the policy explanations of the upper echelons, and the engineer knew that he could not serve his country on the battlefield, he could only serve his country on the battlefield of the factory he was familiar with. When the morning sun rises, more people appear at the door of the factory. They are all people who were tired and tired yesterday and can rest today according to the regulations. But everybody's coming.

The Carnegie engineers wanted to say something, but they didn't. He turned his head and walked to the factory, and after entering the gate, he shouted: "Brothers! It's time to start! ”