Chapter 257: Restructuring the Arsenal
Originally, Yang Yuting was under one person in Fengtian, and he was ambitious, and he was also Zhang Zuolin's strong arm in politics. But now Zhang Hanqing has sprung up, which makes his position as general counselor a little embarrassing.
Many of his opinions and suggestions were implemented by Zhang Hanqing in a more immediate way, such as the establishment of a land endowment system, which dug up a large amount of uncultivated wasteland from warlords and landlords for farmers to cultivate and develop production, so as to strengthen Fengtian's economic power. The original idea of this work was to transfer it by way of lease, but Zhang Hanqing took over the palace perfectly with land reform; Before Zhang Hanqing, he had been committed to the Fengtian Arsenal to make weapons and ammunition to equip the army, and his vision was one step faster than Zhang Hanqing, but Zhang Hanqing's determination to make his own weapons was far greater than him.
In addition, as a member of the General Staff, he also proposed to Zhang Zuolin to build a war-ready highway. Because the South Manchurian Railway in the northeast belonged to Japan at that time, after the construction of the war preparation road, the transportation of the Feng army could not be held hostage by Japan, and once the war broke out, the road could be used to deal with the Japanese army, and the dilemma of the Japanese controlling the train and not allowing the guard brigade to use it would not happen again. However, when Zhang Hanqing also proposed the idea of building his own highway, Zhang Zuolin gave all the credit to his son.
There are all kinds of things, and it can't change the embarrassment that he has to rely on Zhang Zuolin to do things. Zhang Hanqing is a hairy child, but because he has an army, he is called a rising star by the Fengtian people, and his influence directly surpasses his peak (Zhang Hanqing also serves as a senator of the Overseer Military Administration, and is under him as a general senator). Even Han Linchun, an outsider, can be the leader of a division, why can't he think about it more? Isn't Zhang Hanqing just relying on a group of people in the military circles!
The defeat in the competition for provincial governor made Yang Yuting feel that his development in the political world was restricted, and he needed to make a difference in the military circles. The position of the front-line chief officer has been decided, and both young and old Zhang are vigorously improving the status of the auxiliary services, so it seems that it is not impossible for the sword to go sideways. Because Han Linchun left Heilongjiang, his previous position as the general office of the arsenal was bound to be unable to take care of it. Therefore, he proposed to Zhang Zuolin to replace him with Ding Chao, his classmate at the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School.
He is the supervisor of the arsenal, and if Ding Chao gets the general office in his hands again, he will control the lifeblood of the equipment of the Fengtian army, which will greatly increase the weight of his words in the army.
Lao Zhang has nothing to do in this matter, but Zhang Hanqing absolutely disagrees, just like when Han Linchun entered the Guards Brigade and was still in charge of the general office of the arsenal, no matter how busy he was, he had to take up his post, although the specific affairs were handled by Yang Wenkai.
One of the advantages brought by crossing is the right to predict major international and national events in advance, and the other is the right to dominate military development. The Feng system has gradually become a wing, and everyone up and down is holding back their strength to work hard, and everyone wants to plan for the future. At this time, it goes without saying the important role of the Mukden Arsenal, whoever masters it will get the priority of weapon distribution, and whoever will have more power.
This is also one of the reasons why although Yang Yuting was not officially in charge of the army in the official history, he was second only to Zhang Zuolin in Fengtian in power. For a long time, he held the positions of Inspector General of the Arsenal and General Staff. With these two positions, he was surrounded by a bunch of people.
Knowing his performance in history, Zhang Hanqing has no intention of calculating, so he grasps the important power of handling daily routine affairs in advance, and Han Linchun is an important fulcrum. Supervisor and general office, he will be one of them.
Han Linchun took up his post in Hei Province, and his general office could not be represented by Yang Wenkai for a long time, so it was understandable for Yang Yuting to seize this opportunity to recommend himself. In comparison, Yang Wenkai's qualifications are far worse than Ding Chao, and he has no deterrent effect on those soldiers in the arsenal except for technical work.
Yang Yuting felt that nine out of ten were stable.
can't stand the deep love between father and son, in private, Zhang Hanqing and Zhang Zuolin talked about the restructuring of the arsenal. He said: "Father, as you know, I have always advocated the separation of the military and the police, and the separation of the military and the government, and the purpose is nothing more than to let those who have expertise stay specialized and let the mountains below my father be fewer. The promotion of the post of chief of staff and the expansion of the size of the division also dispersed the power of the hilltops. Now the military and politics are generally under the control of my father, but the arsenal, which we invest the most and spend the most, does not have a corresponding decentralization mechanism, and this is a place where corruption and power are easy to breed, so I hope that my father will restrain this.
At first glance, there are many management personnel, but we have not been able to produce our own cannons, which is seriously disproportionate to the investment. According to my observations, one of the main reasons why people are superficial and have their own calculations is one of the main reasons. We all know that it is easier to build guns than guns, so the gun production line has been expanded by two, but the cannon production line is now incomplete. I estimate that managers are all technicians, rigid in thinking, unwilling to take risks, and pick up good things that are easy to produce results first; In addition, the real needs in the army and the rapid development of weapons cannot keep up with the situation.
Therefore, I think that the division commanders or their representatives should also serve as the superintendent of the arsenal, and let them make requests to the arsenal, rather than distributing what the arsenal produces. General Senator Yang also served as his general supervisor, but with the deliberation and resolution of the supervisors as the focus of his work, he put forward production requirements and organized acceptance to the arsenal in the name of the supervisory committee.
In order to prevent the order of bulls, the organizational structure of the arsenal must also be reshuffled. After all, it is based on the production unit, and the management is still mainly based on technicians and less in the form of administrative orders. My idea is to have a factory manager who is only responsible for the operation and quality improvement of the factory, as well as meeting the production requirements of the Supervisory Committee.
All outputs are distributed uniformly by another department. Before, there was only one 27th division, and there was nothing to say about the rotten meat in the pot, and the distribution did not form a system. Now we have four divisions, including the second uncle, and the more or less we are assigned will affect the relationship between the various units. What I mean by this is to set up a department to take care of this in one place, and it can be called the Armament Department or the Ordnance Department, which is also hung under the Overseer.
In this way, the three links of planning, production, and distribution contain each other, meet the actual needs of the army, and can be controlled by the father, and the equipment of each army can also be transparent. ”
For Zhang Hanqing, who was in the middle level of the enterprise before the crossing, the spirit of modern enterprise management has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow. The separation of ownership and management rights will lead to the healthy development of enterprises, and the method of "one word hall" has long been proved to be a backward management system of "success and failure." Later generations shocked the "corruption of the general armament department" inside and outside the army, which has proved that unrestrained power corruption does not only appear in political circles.
Zhang Hanqing's idea is essentially to divide the original power of Yang Yuting into three, especially the most important distribution power is stripped out. If it is really realized, Yang Yuting's general supervision will really become a "superintendent" office and become a contributing unit. The position of the superintendent can only be regarded as the superintendent, and the department responsible for the assignment is the board of directors. In this case, Zhang Hanqing did not hesitate to let him meddle in the management of the arsenal---- in terms of management ability, Yang Yuting did not say anything.
Zhang Zuolin was shocked again. Yang Yuting's thoughts, he knows it well, it is nothing more than that the army commander has nothing to do with him, and he just brushes his sense of presence on logistics equipment, he has basically agreed to the candidate he recommended, Ding Chao is not bad.
It is foreseeable that Xiao Liuzi will definitely fight to the end for his people, because he himself has two divisions and needs a large supply of weapons, and with Han Linchun in the arsenal, of course, it is much more convenient to act. However, Zhang Hanqing's remarks were completely from the perspective of public intentions, from the angle of controlling power, and aimed at achieving the production efficiency of the arsenal, and it is foreseeable that the adoption of this method will definitely produce good results.
Politicians who have not been immersed in officialdom for many years can't do it, where did Xiao Liuzi get so many ghost ideas?
The relieved Zhang Dashuai immediately became kind, so not only could Han Linchun continue to play a role in the arsenal, but Zhang Hanqing also had the opportunity to share Yang Yuting's supervisory role. The commanders of several other divisions are not good at stubble, and of course they will send capable people to supervise major matters related to their own interests, which invisibly dilutes the power of the arsenal originally controlled by Yang Yuting.
I don't know how Yang Yuting, who stole chickens and lost a handful of rice, felt about it, anyway, the final result of this round of personnel fluctuations was that Yang Wenkai became the director of the Fengtian Arsenal, and Mi Chunlin concurrently served as the head of the newly established Equipment Department of the Overseer Administration, and the young marshal department won a big victory.
Of course, in order to take care of Yang Yuting's emotions, Ding Chao was still appointed as the general staff of the Heilongjiang Military Supervision Bureau, and his military rank was also promoted to major general. However, considering the limited influence of Black Governor Bao Guiqing, his role as a general senator is only more limited.
Seeing that the influence of the young marshal completely covered his limelight, General Senator Yang said that it was impossible to have no grievances, and he himself was not a person who could be tolerant, otherwise he would not have been killed by Zhang Xueliang because of "arrogance" in the official history. No, at the first supervision meeting that was held immediately, he directly refuted Zhang Hanqing's opinion.
Zhang Hanqing suggested that the development of the Fengtian Arsenal should be appropriately tilted towards heavy firepower weapons, and that the technology of maintaining and repairing ordinary artillery should be achieved first, and then the natural transition should be made to having the ability to produce artillery, which is called "small steps and fast walking." Yang Yuting said sarcastically: "I haven't learned to climb and still want to fly directly?" The construction of the arsenal is not a child's play, and the production of artillery equipment is often hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, where does the money come from? Where do I buy the equipment? Expanded by four divisions at once, guns alone can't be satisfied, and you still talk about artillery? Besides, the 27th Division has dozens of guns of an artillery regiment, and it needs to spend so much money to build a maintenance line for it? If you have money, you have to spend it wisely! ”
Zhang Hanqing smiled at him: "The vision can't be so low, our artillery will be more and more, and there will be a batch soon!" ”