Chapter 100: Is This a Real Tiger or a Paper Tiger?
Industry is developing, people's livelihood and economy are also developing, and national defense security and social security must not be ignored.
For the 1,500 tons of gold pledged by the Soviet Union in Donghui's treasury, and in order to get more high-end technology from Donghui, Defense Minister Chernenko did not dare to slack off in the slightest in defense work.
However, Cheng Gong did not intend for the Minister of National Defense and the Ministry of National Defense to participate in the leadership and management of the Donghui Navy and Air Force, but handed them a "Donghui Reserve, Reserve, and Mobilization Management Regulations" and asked them to strictly implement and implement it.
At present, Donghui has a limited population, a small territory and a lack of strategic depth. In view of this unfavorable condition, Cheng Gong imitated the Israeli model of later generations and established a military service system in line with Donghui's national conditions. The most important feature of this system is that "the whole country is a soldier." Almost all young people of school-age are required to join the army, regardless of gender, and veterans are required to return to the army regularly every year to participate in intensive training.
Israel is a small country, with a limited population and a lack of strategic depth. In view of these unfavorable conditions, it has drawn on the experience of Western countries in army building and referred to the Swedish model to establish a military service system suited to its own national conditions. The most important feature of this system is that "the whole country is a soldier." Almost everyone of school-age joined the army. Veterans are regularly called back to the unit for training every year.
In order to ensure that "the whole country is a soldier", the proportion of young people of military age who are conscripted into the army is much higher than that of any country in the world today. Usually 90 per cent for men and 60 per cent for women. Donghui clearly stipulates that all young women who have reached the age of 18 should perform compulsory military service. Donghui combined a small but elite standing army with a strong reserve force, and emphasized that in the army, the standing army is only the backbone, and the reserve force is the main body.
In military service work, Donghui attaches great importance to national defense education. The city, county, and district governments at all levels have called for frequent mobilization meetings to educate the people: His Majesty the King calls on us that military service is the most honorable, and that it is glorious for one person to serve as a soldier and the whole family is honorable!
From kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, and universities, all schools and parents should regularly take children and teenagers to visit military bases or exhibitions related to the army, and let them communicate with military personnel through correspondence and learn about the situation of the army. Whenever the conscription approached, the school invited officers to give presentations to the students.
Relying on the lofty status and glorious image of His Majesty Cheng Gong, King of Donghui, in the eyes of all immigrants, the propaganda and education work of governments at all levels has been vigorous and the results are also very remarkable. The majority of young people of military age are able to perform military service conscientiously, and the evasion of military service is very rare. All enterprises and institutions in Donghui strongly support their employees to serve in the military, and even give priority to hiring those with military discharge certificates.
In the eyes of countries around the world, among the active military service system of the Donghui Kingdom, the reserve system has the strongest characteristics.
The goal of "all the country's soldiers" is largely achieved by the reserve system. At present, Donghui's standing army is about 500,000 people, while the reserve force has 2.4 million people, which is nearly 4.8 times more than the standing army.
The Donghui army is dominated by the navy, and the reserve force of the navy has a fixed establishment like the standing army.
Defense Minister Chernenko once specifically consulted Cheng Gong about this peculiar reserve system. Cheng Gong made it clear at the time: "Although Donghui takes the maintenance of world peace and stability as its own responsibility and does not set up naval, army, and air forces like other countries, since we have a country, of course we must have national defense."
Therefore, the Donghui Navy and Marine Corps are based on the principle of militia, that is, the whole country is a soldier. In peacetime, citizens do their jobs, and in wartime, they enthusiastically respond to the call. Therefore, in terms of demographics, Donghui is enough to maintain the world's largest navy. ”
Cheng Gong gave a clear instruction to the Minister of National Defense and the Ministry of National Defense, saying that "the whole country should be a soldier" is not only a quantitative requirement, but also a qualitative requirement. For this reason, in terms of the military service system, Donghui should not only pay attention to army building in peacetime, but also pay more attention to mobilization and use in wartime.
Cheng Gong successively took out the "Reserve Reserve Plan" and the "Reserve Mobilization Law" and handed them to Chernenko, stipulating that the whole country should be divided into 36 conscription and mobilization areas, and a mechanism for local recruitment, local reserves, and local mobilization should be established. It is required to be organized in a fixed manner, with stable personnel, and that all kinds of local means of transportation must be registered in normal times, and that they should be immediately incorporated into the army's logistics system during mobilization and be on standby at designated places.
The military service system implemented by the Donghui Kingdom, which was completely based on self-preservation, virtually made the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other countries secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
With such a population base of Donghui, it is definitely impossible to launch a war of aggression against other countries. As long as you think about the battle of World War I, when millions of troops were strangled into a group, the Donghui Navy definitely did not have so many troops to fill that kind of flesh mill and fight a war of attrition.
Gradually, in order to get more orders from Donghui and earn more gold and Asian dollars, the governments of various ships and equipment, ore raw materials, and skilled workers and engineers who came with the ship continued to sail to Dawning Island.
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Compared with the vigorous industrial development of Zhennan and Dingnan provinces of Donghui Kingdom, Australian New Guinea, which is closely bordered by Zhennan Province, has also borrowed a little east wind from the territory and ushered in many European and American enterprises to invest and build factories, but its scale is really a bit small.
Although the territory controlled by the Australian federal government is huge, the gross domestic product cannot be compared with the wealthy Donghui Kingdom.
As a multicultural immigration country, the Australian federal government is not too reluctant to implement large-scale immigration in the Dutch New Guinea island by the Donghui Kingdom.
Many countries in Southeast Asia have a large number of Chinese immigrants, even in Australia, there are also many Chinese immigrants serving the federal government. As for whether the Chinese have the ability to make the whole of Southeast Asia their colony in disguise, the Australian government directly chose to ignore it.
What are you kidding, Southeast Asia is the traditional colonial sphere of influence of the two old powers, Britain and France. How could such a small circle of Chinese people take food from Britain and France.
Based on this mentality, many people in the Australian federal government have even proposed that the ties and cooperation with the Donghui Kingdom should be strengthened. Because Australia has rich mineral resources and agricultural and animal husbandry resources, which are very much needed by the Donghui Kingdom at present.
Now that the whole world is desperately trying to get a lot of gold from the Donghui Kingdom, the Australian Federation, as a neighbor of Donghui, should be close to the water and get the moon first.
However, although in 1931, the British Parliament passed the Westminster Act, which gave Australia independence in domestic and foreign affairs and became an independent country in the British Commonwealth. However, the Australian Federal Government has not been granted full legislative and judicial final adjudication powers. In some ways, it was still a British semi-colony.
In the face of such a huge piece of fat in the Donghui Kingdom, if you can't find a way to bite it off one or two bites, the two great powers of Britain and France, which have always pursued colonialism, are really a little unwilling.
In particular, the Dutch royal family has been constantly lobbying the top leaders of Britain and France recently, coupled with the "Donghui threat theory" that Churchill has been propagating everywhere, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, after private discussions with French President Albert Lebrun, decided to use the Australian federal army to test whether Donghui is really invincible or a foreign power.