In the past few years, the world situation has suddenly calmed down... One

With the formal signing of the "Third Phase of the Reduction Plan and Supervision Regulations" by all the signatories to the London Treaty before the date of the calendar year, the third and final phase of the work for the comprehensive destruction of nuclear weapons has been officially launched, and the world situation has been greatly eased. The smooth implementation of the third phase of the reduction will be a top priority for human peace.

When Cai. No one dares to ignore the undercurrents beneath the surface of peace.

Over the years, months, and days, Pei Chengyi got the war plan submitted by Yuan Chenhao.

Because there was still a day before the Spring Festival recess of the plenary congress, Pei Chengyi did not rush to find Lin Muxun, but after reading this not very detailed war plan in detail, he found Yan Jingyu on the day of the month and reported the relevant work to the national yuan. A day later, on the day of the moonrise, that is, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Pei Chengyi called Lin Muxun and invited the chairman of the military committee to the vice president's residence to discuss important matters.

You can see it from the timing. Pei Chengyi had no intention of giving Lin Muxun room to bargain.

Of course, Pei Chengyi still had to be polite to the chairman of the Military Committee, so he asked Dongfang Wen to arrange a fairly sumptuous light meal.

Unlike Yan Jingyu, Pei Chengyi doesn't like to do tricks. This can be regarded as avoiding suspicion.

As usual, Lin Muxun was not late, nor did he arrive early, and he was famous for his time. That is, he arrived at Lei Yuan's mansion just a few minutes early.

When the two met, they understood what the other was thinking with just one look.

Pei Chengyi's thoughts naturally need not be said. As agreed, he will present the war plan in a way that presents it. Let Lin Muxun enter the decision-making circle of the republic, and from then on determine Lin Muxun's political status. Because of the restrictions on secrecy, and because it had already been agreed at the barbecue dinner in the Yuan Mansion, Pei Chengyi would not provide a complete war plan, "nor would Lin Muxun leave the Vice Yuan's mansion with any documents."

For Lin Muxun, a war plan was clearly not enough to satisfy his appetite.

In fact, more than a month ago, when Yan Jingyu proposed to postpone the war for a few years at a barbecue dinner and asked the Military Commission to give full support, Lin Muxun guessed the current situation. In his opinion, it was not Yan Jingyu who really wanted to postpone the war, but Pei Chengyi. The reason is very simple, as an ambitious and aspiring national leader, Yan Jingyu has not had any achievements worth boasting about so far, and urgently needs to go down in history through a war. Arguably. For an innocent politician like Yan Jingyu, because there are no other life problems, such as never being short of money, having a lofty status wherever he goes, and always having a large group of people around him, his biggest ambition is actually to go down in history and become a leader who is admired by everything. In this regard, Ji Weiguo, Zhao Rundong and Wang Yuanqing have all done a very good job, and even Gu Weimin has left behind the "green mountains and clear waters" that benefit tens of millions of citizens of the Republic and Yan Jingyu has been in power for 7 years. Aside from fried cold rice, there are no merits that can be remembered, and it cannot but be said to be a big problem.

From this point of view, Yan Jingyu must hope to lead the republic to a big victory like Wang Yuanqing did back then.

The problem is that the conditions and the current situation are not ripe.

From another point of view, from Pei Chengyi's standpoint, these problems naturally do not exist.

Although according to the current political system of the republic and the second political reform that Yan Jingyu is vigorously promoting, Pei Chengyi may not be able to become the head of the country by the next year. But judging from the actual situation, more than two years later, as long as Pei Chengyi is willing, he is almost 100% sure of becoming the country's top leader. In the eyes of many people, Pei Chengyi has no shortage of military exploits. It can even be said that in addition to the founding fathers, Pei Chengyi is the leader with the most military achievements in the history of the republic. Assisted 3 national leaders, commanded the republican ** team to win a large-scale local war.

The question is, in the next war. The republic needs a national leader with military experience like Pei Chengyi. In a sense, this is also the fundamental reason why Yan Jingzi ran for election with Pei Chengyi in the current year, regardless of personal gains and losses.

Being able to become the vice president of the country is enough to prove that Pei Chengyi is a leader with ideals and ambitions.

In this way, when the country is in need, he will not avoid or shirk his determination, and will pick up the heaviest burden as he did on the battlefield.

From this point of view, Pei Chengyi has enough reasons to convince Yan Jingyu.

Of course, it is impossible for Lin Muxun not to know the reason why Pei Chengyi postponed the war.

As mentioned earlier, as the former chairman of Sanjian Group and the second chairman since Lin Yanbo, Lin Muxun's understanding of the republic's first-class industrial system is even higher than Pei Chengyi's, so he also knows the situation of the Republic's national defense construction well.

It can be said that there is only one reason why Pei Chengyi decided to delay the war, and that is that the preparations for war are far from being in place.

Although since the beginning of the year, the Republic has increased its investment in national defense construction. At one time, it even regarded national defense construction as the most important task, but as a normal country, especially when the legal system is relatively sound, unless the country enters a state of war, it is impossible for the central government to do whatever it wants. Don't look at the fact that in the past few years, national defense spending has risen year by year, and military spending has become an increasing proportion of the central government's budget. In the republic's defense spending, about the irrigation has returned to the society, and if the cost of military scientific research is included, then the islands in the defense expenditure are used in areas that have nothing to do with military procurement, and only about boron is used to purchase new weapons and equipment. Of course. This percentage is not low, but it is nothing compared to the procurement costs of the United States.

Of course, this strange structure of military spending has to start with the real economy.

As mentioned earlier, the global economy has once again experienced overproduction after the beginning of the year. As an industrialist, Lin Muxun knows better where the economic problems are. In the final analysis, it is the many countries such as the Republic and the United States that have been involved in too many regional wars and have spent too much irregularly that has led to a sluggish consumer market.

In the case of the Republic, according to the data published by the authorities of the Republic, government revenues accounted for a percentage of the gross national product in the secret year. It is equivalent to taking half of the wealth of society. Although the government revenue of the Republic accounted for about a quarter of the gross national product compared to the beginning of the century, the national wage income accounted for only a large amount. The republic has established the most sound social security system in the world, and most of the government revenue is returned to taxpayers in the form of secondary distribution, that is, in the form of public welfare, for example, in the secretarial and annual financial expenditures, the "three public" budgets of public pension, public medical care, and public education are as much as one trillion yuan, accounting for about 4 of the total government expenditures. However, from an economic point of view, the significance of secondary distribution is far less obvious than that of primary distribution, and it will inevitably have an impact on economic development. More importantly, the republic is a territory. A large country with a population of 10,000 square kilometers and a population of 4B is simply not able to establish a welfare society in the true sense of the word like the Nordic countries. For the republic. Strengthening the market system is the way to become a strong country, so the government must reduce the impact on the economy, that is, reduce taxes so that people can get more fruits of their labor, so as to promote economic development.

When there is a problem in the economy, it is difficult to solve it through administrative means.

In other words, administrative means can only delay the onset of the economic crisis, but cannot solve it fundamentally.

It is precisely for this reason that when the Republic and the United States increased their military spending and expanded their fiscal deficits around the beginning of the Han year, many economists believed that the two major powers were pursuing "Keynesianism" in a different way, that is, promoting currency depreciation through deficit spending, and inflation driving inflation, and then inflation promoting social consumption. Of course, in order for this series of policies to be effective. It is also necessary to send money into the consumer market by expanding arms production, improving the welfare of military personnel, and strengthening military scientific research. Let the people have money to use. Whether to improve the welfare of military personnel or expand arms production depends on who the government serves. In the words of several European news outlets, expanding arms production is actually giving money to arms interests, and although it can help increase the income of workers in the arms industry, the real beneficiaries are not the general public, but a small number of capitalists, and if this continues, it will only further deteriorate the economic environment, leading to the country eventually having to rely on war to consume surplus materials. Improving the welfare of military personnel has the opposite effect, with the real beneficiaries coming from the military and the general public behind them, and the direct conversion of government investment into consumption power. So that the social economy is gradually improving. Finally get out of the crisis.

Because no government can adopt one approach, the government's policies can only be judged by weight.

It follows that the authorities of the republic have been trying to solve the economic problems and hope to prevent the war from doing so. The federal government of the United States seems to prefer war to solve the problem more than the authorities of the republic. Instead of delaying the economic crisis. Create more decades of peace for the world.

Of course, war is inevitable in the long run.

If, in the long run, the authorities of the republic were based on fighting big and fierce battles, they did not expect to defeat their opponents in one fell swoop at the beginning of the war, and were psychologically prepared for a protracted war of attrition from the very beginning. On the contrary, the actions of the US authorities can only show that the US interest groups have little confidence in the United States and hope to gain absolute superiority in the early stage of the war, to defeat the Republic in one fell swoop, and to win a quick victory.

Objectively speaking, this is also an unavoidable issue for both sides.

Regardless, as a successful businessman and a business leader who once managed the world's largest enterprise with hundreds of thousands of employees. It is impossible for Lin Muxun not to know that it was the basic situation of the republic, especially the basic political environment and basic economic situation, that made the authorities of the republic not do their best to prepare for war from the very beginning. Rather, it left the last glimmer of hope for peace, and efforts were made to make efforts to achieve it.

As a direct result, by the beginning of the calendar year, the republic's war preparations were not sufficient.

In this way, when the whole world thought that the republic would take the initiative to provoke a war, Yan Jingyu and Pei Chengyi had to do ideological work for the main delegates of the plenary congress, so that these generations who were eager for war, or eager to benefit from war, could raise their noble hands.

For the same reason, Lin Muxun did not stand on the opposite side of Yan Jingyu and Pei Chengyi.

From a certain meaning, Lin Muxun asked Pei Chengyi to provide a war plan, "not to embarrass Pei Chengzan, but to consider the country." In any case, as chairman of the Military Council, Lin Muxun's allegiance was not to the central government leaders who lived in the Yuan Mansion and the Vice Yuan Residence, but to all the delegates to the plenary congress and the people who elected them. Although Lin Muxun believes in Pei Chengyi's talent and the capable people of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic. It is impossible not to come up with a complete set of war plans that can make people look comfortable. But before seeing such a war plan, Lin Muxun must first put a big question mark and keep one more thought.

It can be said that Lin Muxun represents. It is also the basic value of the new generation of politicians of the republic.

In the years before the force, that is, in Wang Yuanqing's era, there were really few deputies who doubted Wang Yuanqing's decision-making, and most of the time, the plenary congress was actually a ritualized body, and all that was done was to make the decisions of the Yuanfu and the State Council legally valid through deliberation and voting. In the old years, that is, in Gu Weimin's time, because of a less successful war and many international problems. Therefore, the delegates of the plenary congress understood a very important truth, that is, Yuan and the prime minister are also ordinary people, and they will also make some low-level mistakes, and one of the great values of the existence of the plenary congress is not to let the mistakes made by the Yuan and the prime minister have a major negative impact on the country, and use the legislative power to control the last pass. Now, what we are pursuing is no longer independent thinking, but a kind of responsibility, a responsibility to the country, to the nation and to the electorate.

To put it more narrowly, Lin Muxun must be held accountable for the millions of workers who voted for him in the Sanjian Group, Zhongzhong Group, AVIC Group, and many other groups.

In fact. For many years before that, Lin had adhered to this principle.

For example, in the deliberation of the central financial budget in the drowning year. In his capacity as chairman of the Military Committee, Lin Muxun made a very important proposal, that is, to increase the proportion of equipment research and procurement costs from the base to the paste, so as to ensure that sufficient funds can be obtained for several ongoing equipment projects. Then. Lin Muxun only put forward one reason, that is, these equipment procurement projects are related to the vital interests of about 10,000 workers in many industries such as the republican industry, resource industry, manufacturing, and transportation industry, and if the budget is not adjusted, it will at least lead to the unemployment of Liwan workers and the reduction of the income of about 10,000 workers. Exactly. During the deliberation stage of the plenary session, a number of deputies jointly supported the request of the State Council and the Ministry of National Defense to adjust the allocation of the national defense budget. By the second year. Lin Muxun directly proposed to increase the cost of equipment procurement by increasing the defense budget to ensure that more workers can get jobs.

All in all, Lin Muxun thinks first about the voters who support him, not the government, not even the state.

In fact, if every delegate did this, there would be no conflict with the national interest. Theoretically speaking, the main body of the state is the people, and the main body of the people is the citizens who have the right to vote, that is, the so-called voters, so protecting the interests of the voters is actually protecting the interests of the state. Fundamentally speaking, this is also the foundation of the democratic political system, and it is the foundation of the democratic system.

From another point of view, politicians like Lin Muxun are the product of political reform.

It is precisely what Wang Yuanqing said when he carried out political reform, and the ultimate goal of political reform is to return to the people what belongs to the people. Let the people gain the power to be the masters of their own affairs and become the masters of the country in the true sense of the word.

What embodies the true meaning of this sentence is that the people's elected deputies can speak from the standpoint of the people, not from the perspective of the state, let alone think about problems for the government.

If you must give a definition for a representative like Lin Muxun, then their appearance. It is the real proof of the effectiveness of political reform. It can be said that only when these deputies elected by the people of the whole country can consider the well-being of the people, the joys and sorrows of the people, and use the power in their hands to fight for the interests of the people. It is only the political reforms that Wang Yuanqing pursued throughout his life that they have borne fruit.

Of course, this progress, or transformation, does not come all at once, but gradually.

In fact. There were many deputies who had done similar things long before Lin Muxun, otherwise the Republic would not have issued so many laws related to the lives of the people during the years before this, and let so many laws be implemented, so that the interests of the people could be protected.

In other words, Lin Muxun and others have only come to a new realm.

To put it bluntly, that is, on major matters related to the fundamental interests of the state, the deputies who were elected by the people dared to question the decision-making of the Yuan government and the State Council, and dared to let the Yuan government and the State Council take responsibility. We also dare to take our due responsibility for this.

It's definitely not a small step, it's another big one.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Muxun attaches so much importance to this matter and asks Pei Chengyi to give an answer that can satisfy him and many other people.

Similarly, Pei Chengyi also recognized this problem, which is why he is so solemn.

It's just that in this game. Naturally, the leaders of countries with great power have the initiative.