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Chapter 1980: Absolute Power Leads to Absolute Corruption

On 19 November, taking advantage of the annihilation of the Japanese fleet, the Nanjing Nationalist Government officially announced that it would form a Chinese expeditionary force in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info (《》)

The composition of the Chinese Expeditionary Force is quite profound, General Zhu Peide, chairman of Yunnan Province, who has been separated from the central government for a long time, was unexpectedly appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the supreme commander of the expeditionary force, and Wei Lihuang, the "Five Tiger Generals" who had a close relationship with the Chinese Expeditionary Force in North China, served as the deputy commander-in-chief, the chief of the general staff was Lieutenant General Stilwell, an American who was not treated well by Chiang Kai-shek, and the deputy chief of the general staff, Major General Xiao Yisu, a confidant of He Yingqin, was a confidant.

In addition to Chiang Kai-shek's transfer of the newly organized units of the Central Army into the expeditionary force to block the mouths of the people, other unpleasant miscellaneous armies and local troops were also stuffed in, and the Yunnan Army, Xiangxi Zhang Hongluan's Division, and Qianxi Shizhen's Division were all required to send elite main forces to participate in the expeditionary force, which was called "winning glory for the country."

An Yi naturally knew what Chiang Kai-shek's idea was, and immediately called Zhu Peide. Zhu Peide, the founder of the Yunnan Army, who was supposed to die five years ago, is still in good health due to the rapid progress of science and technology, especially the breakthroughs in biology and pharmacology in Nanhua.

Zhu Peide replied on the phone, "The life and death of the country is profitable, how can it be avoided because of misfortune and fortune, and now Yunnan is politically harmonious and prosperous, and it is the time for the Yunnan army to serve the country", An Yi faintly felt that things were not so simple, Zhan Huanqi had already called, saying that Chiang Kai-shek had secretly arrived in Kunming three days ago, stayed in the Guangfu Building of Wuhua Mountain, and had a secret discussion with Zhu Peide behind closed doors.

During this period, Zhang Hongluan and Shi Zhen went to Kunming successively and secretly visited Chiang Kai-shek, which was full of insider information.

Zhu Peide has seven sons and three daughters, as Zhu Peide's position in Yunnan becomes more and more solid, Zhu Weiliang, Zhu Weizhi, Zhu Weixin and others either returned from studying in Europe and the United States, or graduated from the Central Military Academy, and have provoked the military and political pillars of Yunnan.

Although Zhan Huanqi is Zhu Peide's son-in-law, because he is also An Yi's brother, many core secrets are gradually insulated from him, so he is currently in the army in western Yunnan, until he saw the news of the establishment of the expeditionary force, he learned the truth through the inside, and the result shocked him.

An Yi was also shocked, for Yunnan, Xiangxi, Qianxi these allies, An Yi thought that he had never been badly treated, since 28 to the present, in terms of funds, technology and other aspects of help, to a certain extent, the three allies are almost all because of An Jiajun this group of prosperity, he made all the decisions related to the interests of the three families, will be notified as soon as possible, now the three secretly contact Chiang Kai-shek, if there is no shady who will believe it?

An Yi thought of the Xiangxi Arsenal and Xiangxi Pharmaceutical Factory, which have an output value of hundreds of millions of yuan, the Panzhihua Iron Mine, which has an annual output of 15 million tons of iron ore, the Liupanshui mining area with coal reserves of 50 billion tons and the reserves of coalbed methane and shallow natural gas of more than 1 trillion cubic meters, the old one, known as the tin capital, and the perfect industrial base that has been established in the three places over the years. (《》)

The more I thought about An Yi, the more uneasy I felt, and immediately gave instructions, and the CIA and the Ministry of State Security immediately joined hands to investigate everything that had happened in Yunnan, Xiangxi, and Qianxi over the years, hoping to find clues from them and discover the deep-seated reasons for the gradual separation of the three allies.

As a result, in just three days, one after another shocking reports and cases were put on An Yi's desk, making him uneasy.

In recent years, with the continuous improvement of the economy, Yunnan, Xiangxi, and Qianxi have not only made remarkable progress in industry and agriculture, but also in the fields of transportation, real estate, finance, and electric power. However, while the finances are abundant, the phenomena of corruption, abuse of power for personal gain, and even collusion between the powerful and the underworld in various places to bully men and women have gradually spread.

Although most of the cadres in the three places have received strict ideological and political education at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, accepted the ruling concept of serving the people wholeheartedly, and also wanted to make a career at the beginning of their careers, due to the special situation that the government in the three places is an ally of the Anjia Army and its soldiers have complete autonomy over military and internal affairs, the supervision and discipline inspection departments in Nanhua have no way to restrain them, and the focus of the An Yi Group has shifted from Syria to Annan, and the influence of Syria on the surrounding areas has rapidly weakened. Coupled with the fact that these areas are far from mountains and far away, and the media is underdeveloped, this creates relatively closed areas, and soon new interest groups emerge in collusion between power and money, who join hands to monopolize one side, treat the people as their own cash machines, and take the resources of these areas as private goods.

Of course, these people are very cunning, most of them have undergone systematic training in Syria, and they know which people they can't touch, as long as there are people in the family who are studying, working, serving as civil servants, or serving in the army, they will be given preferential treatment.

Although the economy of these areas has gradually prospered following the pace of expansion in South China, in fact, there are endless harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people have not benefited much.

Xiaonanhai Chongwen Building, An Yi was extremely angry after reading all the information he found, but this matter is too wide-ranging, especially bad is that nominally Zhu Peide, Zhang Hongluan and Shi Zhen are allies with themselves, although Nanhua's current expansion is far from being comparable to the past, but nominally everyone is equal.

An Yi thought for a long time, thought for a while, and asked the two intelligence officers who came to report the situation: "I don't know if Zhu Yigong, Senior Zhang, and Shi Zhen know these situations?" ”

Chen Yu's expression was solemn: "It's impossible to say that I don't know, in fact, the Zhu family, the Zhang family, the Shi family, the main generals of various armies and divisions, as well as government officials at all levels, are the biggest beneficiaries of this deformed political system." The corruption of army generals and government officials has become a common phenomenon, and if they do not want to be excluded in these areas, they have to join in on their own.

Nowadays, county and township officials in Yunnan, Xiangxi, Qianxi and other places are like local emperors, and corruption and bribery, buying and selling official positions, and even bullying men and women occur from time to time, and the confrontation between the government and the people is becoming more and more serious. Even in the factories and enterprises we have set up in cooperation, the phenomenon of losing public and private interests is very common, because we only provide technology, machinery and capital to invest in shares, out of trust in our allies, most of the managers are appointed by local personnel, because of our strict acceptance system, they do not dare to use their brains on quality, so they think of other aspects......

"The most commonly used trick is to use the name of the joint venture to take orders, and then hand over to private enterprises to work overtime to produce, from which to make huge profits, although it has virtually increased the production capacity of the enterprise, and improved the overall military production capacity of our South China, but because the labor intensity of the workers using the assembly line operation is too high, there is often a situation of exhaustion, and at the same time, a large amount of tax revenue originally belonged to the government flowed into private pockets, resulting in a slowdown in local water conservancy, transportation, municipal construction, etc., and the people complained!"

An Yi's face turned pale, and he asked, "Such a serious situation did not evolve overnight, how could the intelligence department know nothing?" Are all the institutions we have stationed in various places eating dry food? ”

Chen Yu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "In the final analysis, Yunnan, Qianxi and Xiangxi are not our territory, we are mainly combined by interests and mutual trust, and our stationed agencies are inseparable from the support of the local government and the army to do many things, so we can only turn a blind eye, anyway, it is only the local people who suffer, and it has not affected our military production, and even because of cruel exploitation, the production cost has dropped, and our procurement price has fallen slightly, saving a lot of money!"

After analyzing the pros and cons, the intelligence departments of various localities unanimously agreed that it was really not appropriate to make a big move during the war, that such sweatshops were actually beneficial to our South China, and that the living standards of the three places were much better because of the development of industry than the people in the Kuomintang region, so they selectively ignored them, but all the information was archived and available to the headquarters at any time. This is the main reason why we have gained so much in just three days.

"Actually, I was surprised when I got these situations, but when I think about it, it makes sense for others to do something on their own turf. To put it bluntly, we are just outsiders, investors, and the ownership is their own, and we simply cannot morally blame them. Judging from the secret meeting between Zhang Hongluan, Shi Zhen, and even Zhu Yigong and Chairman Chiang, the situation is more complicated than we imagined. ”

"It's a pity that in these areas, we still sent teams to carry out land reform and build primary and secondary schools in each village, and won the hearts of the people, but now everything is in vain......

An Yi sighed, at this time he had completely calmed down, thought about it and asked Du Yi, who was silent on the side, seriously: "Is there a similar situation in the southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan and Zhaotong regions under our direct control?" ”

"Nope!"

Du Yi replied categorically: "The supervision of the areas directly under our jurisdiction has always been very strict, and there is absolutely no breeding soil. From the central to the local, public opinion is directly protected, even ordinary people, at any time through the village or the street with a special color paint written to our discipline inspection department to report, our major banks have been for eligible media to provide preferential loans, at the same time the local police system and local government decoupled, money from the central bank account, in a sense, the public security and armed police are part of the army, of course, they are also strictly in accordance with the strict requirements of workers, peasants, Supervision of the people's congresses at all levels, which are formed on the principle of one-fourth of the officials and their children.

"In order to prevent redundant personnel and prevent relatives of officials from entering the organs, the budgets and staffing plans of local governments are all examined and approved by the supervision departments in the light of actual conditions, and the local people's congresses are to put the second pass on them, and finally the central authorities are specially organized to study and approve them.

In addition, all expenditures of local governments are earmarked for special use and are jointly supervised by special committees of local people's congresses and central supervisory bodies. Through such means as the inability of financial power to be self-dictatory, the absence of violent machines to suppress and coerce the people, the ability of officials to report every word and deed at any time, and the right of the people to directly stab everything they see to the Central Supervision Bureau and the Commission for Discipline Inspection, the behavior of officials at all levels is exposed in broad daylight, and the darkness is naturally gone.

"Moreover, the current state of war, the chairman has long said that you are ready to set up an independent office of integrity in peacetime, in addition to the Ministry of Supervision and the Commission for Discipline Inspection, which will be directly responsible to you, and will specifically supervise officials, and resolutely crack down on the small coffers set up by local governments and the private transfer of public goods into private ones.

"As long as the officialdom is not bad and other laws and regulations keep up, there will not be so many dirty things in Xiangxi, Qianxi and Yunnan now!"

An Yi stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, Chongwen Building is facing the garden of Xiaonanhai, although it is already early winter in northern China, and many regions such as Siberia and the Far East are even more icy and snowy, but Xinjing, which is like summer all year round, is still full of flowers, and everything is so vibrant under the warm and bustling sun.

An Yi was silent for a long time, turned back to the sofa and sat down, waved his hand and said: "I don't blame you for this, in fact, four years ago, Nanhua carried out the first time to rectify the ideology and work attitude, and I knew that there might be problems in Xiangxi and other places, but at that time, we had just established ourselves in Annam and Mongolia, and the war in Central Asia was raging.

"Over the past few years, our military and government departments have had an ideological and work style rectification every year, and various laws, regulations, and supervisory measures have been continuously improved, while the allies who have grown up with us at the same time have no restraints in this regard, and in the case of a booming economy, it is completely conceivable that power will lose its restraint and become corrupt and degenerate! I suddenly know now why they sneaked up to see Chairman Chiang......"

Chen Yu and Du Yi both knew the unfinished meaning of An Yi's words, and nodded one after another. A trace of ruthlessness flashed on Du Yi's face, and he said:

"Boss, do you want to arrest degenerate soldiers, corrupt officials, and bad businessmen in the three places in accordance with our laws and regulations? In the past few years, they have squeezed the people's fat and people's ointment, conservatively estimated at about two or three billion, if this money is invested in the construction of people's livelihood in Nanhua, our economy will go to a higher level! ”

An Yi shook his head: "Now is not the time...... If we do that, we will completely sever our friendship with the three places for many years, and the southwest region will inevitably become a mess, and industrial and agricultural production will be greatly disturbed, which will then affect the next war between us and Germany.

"It's interesting to think that Mussolini announced with great fanfare that he would send troops to the Atlantic to help Germany launch a landing operation on the British Isles, and at home it was as if it had been discussed with the Germans, and Chairman Chiang began to quietly make small moves, ready to pull us back...... It's hard to predict what will happen next! ”

Chen Yu asked puzzledly:

"Do you just sit back and watch them get together and make small moves? At present, the air forces of the three places have more than 1,000 fighters combined, and although most of their pilots have been trained by us, no one dares to guarantee that they will not obey the order and drop bombs on our heads! Coupled with the Xiangxi Arsenal, which is currently the largest in terms of output, and the Kunming Arsenal, which was built and put into operation in 39 years, our three allies are not idle, once they become elbows and armpits, how to deal with them? ”

"There are no eternal friends in this world, only eternal interests......

An Yi said with emotion: "I have a deeper understanding of this sentence, as long as they want to continue to make money, they will definitely not take the initiative to turn their faces with us, after all, those things that are produced, except for being traitors and trading with the Japanese, only we can digest them!"

"Once trade stops, the economies of the three places will collapse immediately. Just like the relationship between our South China and the Nationalist Government, there is both cooperation and confrontation, and it is constantly moving forward in friction!

"I suddenly understand why Zhu Yigong, Zhang Hongluan, and Shi Zhen transferred the most elite troops to us for Central Asian operations, because most of those troops were the main leaders of the people we sent, and they received the systematic education of our Anjia Army.

"In the past few years, after continuous transfer and replenishment, even Zeng Changhe was sent to Central Asia, basically purging the people we gave to them over the years, and unconsciously regained the power of the army, so calculating......"

Just when An Yi shook his head frequently, Shen Fengdao walked in and handed An Yi an urgent telegram, An Yi's face changed after reading it, and he sneered:

"I was looking for someone to vent, and Little Japan took the initiative to put on his face, isn't this obviously wanting to be beaten? I ordered Huang Yuyi to give me an orderly plan for the 10,000-plane bombing that was being prepared, and to transfer all the mobile fighters except jet fighters to the Far East and the Korean Peninsula. ”