Chapter Ninety-Five: Gains and Losses
The second person who suffered heavy losses was the historian. The military strength under General Shi Huan was reduced from 550,000 to 120,000. Different from the direct line of the Sun family, Sun Zhengxiu directly controlled the Northeast Military Region, from the chief of staff to the commander of the Northeast Military Region, and the Sun family at least has a certain amount of compensation.
Although the historians did not come out to wave their flags and shout openly against disarmament, everyone knows that they did not stop the disarmament resolution in private. Peace talks, including with the Northern Barbarians, the Golden Horde, are also progressing slowly.
It was not until the Chencang Incident occurred, the two clans returned peacefully, and the Northwest Army of Bingzhou lost its right to speak, and it disappeared. Therefore, Admiral Shi Huan also suffered heavy losses this time.
On the surface, the strength of the Northwest Military Region is the second lowest 120,000 troops, the same as that of the Southeast Military Region, and the veterans of the former Northwest Army have been left. But everyone also understands that the policy of the Federation is that the garrison is directly linked to the population of the defense area.
However, the four prefectures where the Northwest Military Region is located have an extremely large land, but their population is only 3.1 million, which is more than half of the three prefectures of the Northeast Military Region, which are the second-to-last ones. At present, there are 120,000 troops, just because the two ethnic groups have newly joined, and it is necessary to maintain a certain degree of deterrence by force and maintain the stability of the newly incorporated areas.
However, the population of 1.1 million in the two states of Liang and the two states is obviously not able to provide so many soldiers, and many of the retained troops are troops who came from other places to join the state to participate in the war, and with the stability of the two states, the soldiers will return to their hometowns sooner or later.
The number of soldiers who can be retained is less than 40,000. Moreover, according to the agreement between the Federation and the two clans, a large part of the original Byzantine knights and Golden Horde warriors will be gradually absorbed into the army in the next three years. They will also gradually replace the non-four-state officers and soldiers in the current Northwest Military Region.
Admiral Shi Huan has commanded the Northwest Army for many years, and he belongs to the hawks, and the relationship between the two tribes is definitely not harmonious, even if it is not hatred, it is definitely not harmonious, and it is conceivable that in the future, his control over the cavalry of the two tribes, which accounts for the majority of the population, is far inferior to the Federation supported by Bishop Franky.
Moreover, judging from the current population of the four states, development is still far away, and with the stability of the two ethnic groups, it is a foregone conclusion that the military strength will be further weakened, and the southwest, which has the advantage of population in terms of potential, and the southeast, which has huge room for expansion in the future.
If the An family needs to start all over again, the historian is destined to be gradually eliminated from the historical stage.
There are even more interests that have been damaged by the vast number of officers at and above the colonel level, as well as dozens of generals and officers. Disarmament of 1.4 million people, theoretically speaking, every 10,000 people in a division is a major general and division commander. Due to the Federation's commemoration of the Great War in the Valley of the Martyrs, the number of generals was limited to 170, but at least this is 140 colonels.
Even in many front-line ace troops, the division deputy is also a colonel. Thousands of officers at the rank of colonel and lieutenant regiment and major battalion were abolished. Although the Confederation gave these people the honorary military positions they retained, and most of them were given placements.
However, especially for those who have no family power and are not graduates of military academies and are similar to those of Liu Guannan, especially those officers who have been stationed on the front line for a long time. It can be said that they have served in the army since they were teenagers, and now they have served for as little as 20 years, and as many as 40 or even 50 years, and they have no other ability than to fight.
Whether it can adapt to civil affairs and enterprise affairs when transferred to local governments or enterprises is still a huge question mark. Compared with the relatively young lieutenant officers, these people have lower potential, and if they do not adapt, they are destined to be eliminated by society.
The big waves wash the sand, the survival of the fittest, and the cruel social choice is like this.
They are the root cause of the federal government, the police system, including the FBI, who is regarded as a factor of unrest, as a great enemy.
Can it be said cruel? However, after all, the federation has given these people enough treatment and opportunities, whether in enterprises or localities, under the premise of this development and construction, there are enough opportunities and opportunities. If we can correct our mentality and quickly integrate into society, why don't we have a chance if the major industrial and mining enterprises even go home to farm?
After all, compared with the 20 million slaves who have just been liberated, they have status, status, management experience, and if they return to the locality, they will also have a three-year military salary resettlement subsidy given by the disarmament. With such start-up capital, as long as you don't eat nothing, why can't you do a career?
And what about the beneficiaries of disarmament? The first is, of course, the Federation. The Federation has been developing peacefully for 30 years, and there is no shortage of financial resources. Such a huge army expenditure was reduced, albeit at an astronomical cost. But people who understand military affairs know that the original huge garrison of more than 1.2 million in Lianghe Prefecture, and the terrifying supply pressure is the biggest burden on the Federation.
That's why the capital area has a terrifying civilian and logistical officer. The food, weapons, soldiers, and war horses of the whole federation need to be continuously gathered in the capital area, and they are sent to Liangzhou and Bingzhou in turn. As we all know, the railway line from the capital area to Liangzhou has been the busiest railway line in the federation since its completion.
Now that a large number of soldiers have returned to the local area, the Union no longer has to bear the burden of munitions transportation, and the savings are astronomical, and in less than two years it will be enough to offset the expenses of disarmament and the emancipation of slaves. What's more, what is the most lacking in the Federation? Everyone knows that nature is the population.
At the current natural population growth rate of 3.87 per cent in the Federation, it will take at least 15 to 20 years to add to the 1.4 million male-dominated able, able-bodied population. It is conceivable that the return of these people to production has produced a huge impetus for social development.
Personally, there is no doubt that the one who has gained the greatest benefits is none other than General Lin Zhennan, commander of the Central Military Region. Under the multi-party game, in the end, Lieutenant General Lin, who was originally the commander of the garrison of the capital area, was promoted to the rank of general and took over the defense of the entire Central Military Region. The number of troops has also increased from the original 110,000 to the strongest 250,000 in the Federation.
Although some of the front-line troops were transferred back from the Western Army and the Northwest Army, it was believed that with General Lin's methods, it would not take much time to collect them for their own use. After all, objectively, in fact, the Sun family and his family have already encircled the Central Military Region from the southwest, northwest, and northeast, and there must be a powerful figure who can confront the Sun family and stand on the opposite side of the Sun family in order to maintain the stability of the federation.
So it is not so much Lin Zhennan's luck as it is the inevitable choice left to all forces after he has confronted Sun Zhengdao for many years.
Another, relatively less conspicuous, is Lieutenant General Kim Jong. The transfer from the General Staff Office of the Military Department to the chief of the General Staff of the Central Military Region and his promotion to lieutenant general is also a huge promotion. And everyone knows the personal relationship between Lieutenant General Jin and Admiral Lin, after a lapse of several decades, the two have teamed up again, and Lieutenant General Jin obviously wants to play a role in balancing the relationship between Admiral Lin and the Sun family.
Lieutenant General Kim's complex background relationship is also a coordinating bond that balances the forces of all parties. After all, it is only a battle of wills, and a relationship of contradictions and conflicts has not yet been formed.
The third to benefit is the police system and the FBI. As a result of a series of performances after the establishment of the Investigation Bureau, the whole society has noticed the drawbacks of maintaining law and order mainly by the military in the past. The role of the police system has been re-examined, and the Federal Police Service has been upgraded from a departmental unit to a ministerial level. The number of police officers has also increased from 20,000 in the past to 120,000.
From now on, law and order in all federal cities will be transferred to the police, and the city guard will be completely abolished. The city defense army has also been greatly reduced and assigned to the major military regions, which are under the unified responsibility of the military districts. However, it no longer interferes in the public affairs of urban management, and only serves as a guardian force. The power of the local police stations has been elevated above the garrison.
The Bureau of Investigation, which brought about this change, was promoted from the rank of deputy minister to the rank of minister, and was separated from both the army and the police system, and was not subject to the control of the police department or the state governments. It has established the status of an independent law enforcement agency that is directly accountable to the State Government and has prosecutorial powers over both the army and the police system.
Especially after gaining the power to secretly enforce the law and hide the identities of investigators, the FBI has become a secret service agency above the local governments of various states. Although the number has only expanded to 4,000, no one knows how many secret field offices the Bureau has set up in federal cities, in addition to the 13 confirmed states and the two precincts in the western and northern states that are under construction. And how many people have become unofficial hired investigators for the Investigation Bureau.
All citizens of the Federation may sign witness documents separately with the Investigation Bureau and cooperate with the Investigation Bureau on the condition of remuneration, provided that true and valid evidence is provided. These secret witnesses do not occupy the establishment, do not receive salaries, and only receive a certain cash reward for cooperating in the case.
The Investigation Bureau's Witness Protection Act, on the other hand, protects all witnesses who can legally disappear after assisting in the case and regain their status and life. This terrifying omnipresent eye is the object of fear for all criminal forces, including official forces.
However, in the face of the achievements made by the Investigation Bureau after its establishment, the opponents have nothing to say, and can only be entangled in opposing the agent-style investigation method. was finally passed by the government and parliament, and Ding Xiaolei, the young director of the FBI, officially became one of the federal giants.
In line with the promotion of the status of the Investigation Bureau, a series of commendation and promotion orders for the Investigation Bureau were issued by the Prime Minister himself.
Director Ding Xiaolei was promoted to the honorary rank of Director of the FBI and Chief Police Inspector; Deputy Director Jiang Feng will continue to serve as the first deputy director of the Investigation Bureau and the rank of deputy chief police inspector and supervisor; Major General Du Yu, former chief of the military police of the Northwest Army, was transferred to serve as deputy director of the Investigation Bureau, and was promoted to the rank of honorary lieutenant general and deputy chief police inspector; Yu Bule, former director of the Procuratorial Department of the Investigation Bureau, was promoted to the rank of major general, and concurrently a senior professor at the Central Military Academy in the capital, honorary director and senior visiting professor of the Criminal Investigation Department of the newly established Central Police Academy, and promoted to the assistant director of the FBI to continue to be responsible for the executive affairs of the procuratorial department, and the rank of deputy chief police inspector; Li Kenong, Zhao Rongbi, Wu Datong, and Shen Yue were all promoted to honorary major generals and continued to serve as directors of various departments of the Procuratorial Department.