Chapter 918: A Strategic Victory for Civil Officials
It is said that when Li Xuan decided to set up the model of the Reclamation Regiment to solve the problem of prisoners of war, he never thought that there would be such a strange product as the 29th Reclamation Regiment.
And at present, there are nearly 100 tunken tun in the Tang Dynasty, except for the 29th tunken regiment, there are no other tunken tun regiments, most of them are honest farming, road building and bridge paving.
Then wait for the end of the service time or the amnesty to be free to go home!
There is the 29th Reclamation Regiment tossing like this!
But when Li Xuan saw the beginning and end of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, he also somewhat understood Lu Fang's decision at that time, when the 29th Reclamation Regiment arrived in Lingao, it couldn't even solve the rations, and then he started to go to sea to fish to solve the ration problem, and when there were more fish caught, it was normal for him to eat them and sell them for other grains or money.
But what is not normal is that Lu Fangfang is too bold and too capable, and in just a few years, he has turned the 29th Reclamation Regiment into a large fishing company.
There are only a few companies with more than 3,000 employees, not to mention the fishing industry, even in the textile industry, where the labor force is highly concentrated.
The Jiangnan Textile Factory, which was being built by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises in Jiangnan, employed less than 3,000 people.
If it was a petty fight, it is estimated that no one would care about the 29th Reclamation Regiment, but the problem was that Lu Fangfang had made this cause too big, so big that the generals of the logistics department were afraid, and so big that the civil servants of the cabinet pounced on it like cats that smelled the smell of fish.
This 29th Cantonment Regiment cannot continue to be retained, this is a matter of principle, and it absolutely cannot be changed, because this will destroy the principles that Li Xuan has always adhered to, such as the separation of military and government, military and business, and government and business!
In addition, someone from the logistics department must be responsible for this, and this person in charge cannot be Lu Pingfang, although Lu Pingfang has made a big cause, but it is only a small role, and the main officials of the Prisoner of War Department should be responsible for this, and at the same time, the high-level leaders of the logistics department also need to bear the responsibility of poor supervision.
But the handling method of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, Li Xuan felt that it needed to be adapted, first of all, although Lu Square was still under the management of the military before, he was a retired soldier after all, not an active soldier!
Retired captains and active captains, that's two different things.
And those prisoners of war are also not ordinary active duty personnel, which can be seen from the fact that these prisoners of war do not have military ranks!
Therefore, this series of problems has to be looked at separately!
Li Xuan didn't care about other trivial issues, but quickly made instructions, the separation of military and business is a matter of principle, and there is no room for change!
In addition, the current cantonment system is extremely flawed, and the Privy Council was ordered to rectify it, so that the cantonment regiment can return to the general direction of 'managing prisoners of war', and not engage in other messy things.
As for the 29th Reclamation Regiment, since the livelihood of thousands of people is already at stake, after the establishment of the 29th Reclamation Regiment is abolished, the assets of the Reclamation Regiment can be transferred to the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises will take the lead in re-establishing a fishing company, giving priority to the employment of prisoners of war from the original Reclamation Regiment.
Basically, the handling of the 29th Cantonment Regiment was to completely glass up the relationship between it and the military.
The problem of the 29th Cantonment Regiment is difficult not because its business is not large, but because it is clothed in the skin of the military, even if there is not a single active soldier in it.
With the military skin removed, the 29th Cantonment Regiment was able to exist as a purely commercial company.
In this way, the problem can be regarded as a preliminary solution.
As for Lu Pingfang, he was originally a retired soldier, and it is really difficult to say that there is no distinction between military and business, and besides, Li Xuan also saw that the 29th Reclamation Regiment can have today, this Lu Square has made great efforts, and this person will also be the best helmsman of this purely commercial fishery company in the future.
So Li Xuan just brushed this person over and didn't mention it!
Li Xuan personally instructed the solution to this matter, and the people below naturally did not dare to slack off, and many generals on the Privy Council side held a special meeting within the army to discuss the management of prisoners of war.
The Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study, the Minister of Operations of the Privy Council, and Lieutenant General Lei Wan slapped the table at this meeting and scolded a large number of army generals.
On the one hand, he has to preside over the work of the War Department, prepare for the battle in Huguang, maintain the situation in the north, and fight wits and courage with the people in the navy and cabinet in the imperial study, and then these generals, especially the generals of the logistics department, actually cause trouble for him.
Although he is not from the logistics department, strictly speaking, he is the head of the war department and the head of the logistics department, but he is the minister on duty in the imperial study!
He is the minister on duty in the imperial study, and he is the only minister on duty in the imperial study, so even if he is not the leader of the army or something, he can be regarded as half a level higher than other generals.
What's more, he is the representative of the army in the imperial study, and if something happens to the army, Liu Bagou on the cabinet side is quite unkind, and he can speak as ugly as he wants, so he almost said that he connived at the army's rebellion.
Then Your Majesty is also polite, let him go back and rectify the prisoner of war problem!
Lei Wan is quite passive, and his passivity will become difficult in the imperial study, and his situation in the imperial study will become difficult, which basically directly represents the difficult situation of the army.
Without him in the imperial study, the Navy and the Cabinet don't know how much of the Army's interests will be swallowed!
was embarrassed to be said in the imperial study, and he had a black face when the meeting ended, and at the current meeting, he was naturally not polite and scolded one by one.
In the Tang Army, although Lieutenant General Lei Wan is not the highest status, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, Fang Xitong, and Wang Chaohong, four army veterans, are also commanders of the First Army, and their prestige in the army is higher than his.
But those are all well-known generals who lead the army outside, and they will participate in the affairs of the Privy Council in the first two years, but now in addition to commanding the troops to fight, they basically do not participate in the internal affairs of the dynasty, and even the internal affairs of the Privy Council They can hide.
After all, everyone now knows that their generals have great merit and prestige, but there is a saying that the merit is high and the lord is shocked, and there is a saying that the bird hides the bow, and the rabbit dies and the dog cooks!
Everyone is not stupid, they all know that if they are still doing the same thing as in the previous two years, which has attracted the suspicion of His Majesty, then the fate of a large number of founding generals of the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty will be their end, so they all have the idea of protecting themselves.
Not to mention meddling in the affairs of the government or the Privy Council, Hao Bonian among them, even after the Northern Expedition, asked to resign from the post of commander of the Third Army, of course, I didn't dare to say beggar bones or anything like that, that was a slap in the face to Li Xuan, you did this, didn't you make it clear that you were afraid that I, Li Xuan, would cook the rabbit to death?
Therefore, Hao Bonian's request is to resign from the Third Army, hoping to return to Beijing to enjoy the glory and wealth!
To put it bluntly, he doesn't control military power, and he just holds an idle position!
Those high-status and high-prestige military commanders had an attitude of ignoring what was going on outside the window and bent on fighting, which made Lieutenant General Lei Wan also control the actual part of the power in the Privy Council as he wished.
has the title of Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study, and now in this Privy Council, he Lieutenant General Lei Wan is the boss!
You can scold anyone if you catch it!
After Lei Wan scolded him, he asked the logistics department to quickly come up with a new management plan for prisoners of war, and then the prisoners of war division should be completely rectified, and in addition, nearly 100 other reclamation regiments should also be thoroughly sorted out and put an end to any business behavior.
Lei Wan left after scolding, he was very busy, but he didn't have time to take care of the mess in the logistics department!
Besides, although he Lei Wan is the minister on duty in the imperial study, if he really wants to be investigated, in fact, he and the head of the logistics department are only at the same level, and he has no right to manage the logistics department.
The bosses of several other departments were scolded inexplicably, and they were all unhappy to leave, leaving only a few people from the logistics department there, and then you look at me, I look at you!
In the end, an agreement was reached, Ma Dan, several main persons in charge of the Prisoner of War Division, must let them get out!
Just a day later, several of the main heads of the POW Division, including the director of the division, Major General, two deputy colonels, and several lieutenant colonels were transferred to the reserve!
Immediately, the army launched a large-scale inventory of the remaining hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and nearly 100 cantonment regiments, and re-improved the cantonment regiment system.
As for the 29th Reclamation Regiment and Lu Pingfang, the army side directly abolished the establishment of the 29th Reclamation Regiment out of sight and out of mind, and several reserve officers, including Lu Pingfang, were all dismissed, and even directly deprived of their retired military ranks.
Then all the fishing boats, factories and other assets of the 29th Reclamation Regiment were transferred to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
Since then, the 29th Reclamation Regiment and the military have never had the slightest relationship!
The people in the state-owned enterprise department were in a good mood and accepted all the assets of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, including more than 3,000 employees, including Lu Square.
In this battle, their civilian system severely slapped the army with a big mouth, forcing a major general of the army to retire from active service, which was a strategic victory.
The officials in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises also belong to the civil service system, so they are naturally in a good mood!
In less than a few days, the station of the 29th Reclamation Regiment was replaced with a signboard: Lingao 29 Fishery Company.
Lu Fangfang changed from a reserve captain to an ordinary person, and then became an official of the state-owned enterprise department of Zhengliupin, and served as the general manager of Lingao Erjiu Fishery Company.