Chapter 639 Strategic Material Reserve Bureau
The National Strategic Reserve Bureau, this unit is a new unit established in Australia last year, you can know by listening to the name, what this unit does, don't look at the name of this unit, but it manages a lot of things, and it is very comprehensive.
The director of the Reserve Bureau is a high-ranking deputy ministerial-level cadre, and the reason is that the Strategic Reserve Bureau manages too many things, and as long as it is tied to the strategic reserve, he can interfere.
They can manage not only the reserves of ordinary materials such as food and energy, but also minerals and the weapons and ammunition produced. There are not many people in this department, there are only a dozen people at the moment, but the framework has already been formed.
At last year's government work report meeting, Huang Fu first put forward the proposal to set up a reserve bureau, and at that time everyone was still discussing around this proposal, saying that there was no need to set up, after all, the state had set up a food bureau and a civil affairs bureau before this, and these two units could manage reserve materials to a certain extent.
It's just that Huang Fu proposed that the reserve materials are different from others, they are combat materials, and there should be a special department in charge, so that it is convenient for reasonable management.
Strategic materials are combat materials, some things can be stored for a long time, some can't, and there is a problem of miscommunication between the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Food Bureau, and this kind of cross-departmental cooperation generally occurs in this situation.
In fact, this kind of problem does not occur in peacetime, but if it does occur in wartime, there will be a big problem, and then everyone will shirk their responsibilities, and it is related to the lives of the soldiers.
Signaling Huang Fu to propose this, it was supported by some people, after all, Australia needs to fight a lot, and Huang Fu's cabinet mainly expands the colony, this guy does nothing else to expand the colony's ambition can simply compete with another expansion maniac Fan Dimen.
If you want to realize your dream of expansion, it is not so easy, and Huang Fu knows that if you want to expand, you must first make some preparations. The necessary material reserves are one.
This Strategic Material Reserve Bureau is actually Huang Fu's preparation for expansion, and he was preparing for himself a year ago.
However, now this department has become a department serving the expeditionary force, and the most important thing for Australia at present is the Far East War, which will invest more than 10,000 people in the battle is directly related to the survival of the Ming market and the national heritage.
In addition to the work of the Material Reserve Bureau, it also has the right to check and verify the production materials, and of course there is a right to supervise the production of the factory, one of the largest rights is the right to procure, and the Material Reserve Bureau has the right to purchase and decide on materials without going through the government work meeting.
Therefore, the position of director of this reserve bureau can be said to be quite popular. At least in various enterprises, it is quite popular, whether it is the production of food or the production of clothing, it is quite popular here.
As long as the Strategic Material Reserve Bureau gives you an order, it is a big order, especially at this time, everyone knows how big the materials needed for the war are, and the materials supplied by Shen Youlong are also directly supplied by the Reserve Bureau.
Another purpose of Huang Fu's establishment of this reserve bureau is to increase the voice of the radicals in the field of foreign trade, and he wants to increase foreign trade through the material reserve bureau. Avoid ownership being held by centrists and conservatives.
Of course, Huang Fu also knew that it would be difficult for him to intervene, and maybe he would let Zhao Shijie join forces with the conservatives to suppress him, so he took the lead in proposing that he could cooperate with Zhao Shijie. The director of the Supplies Reserve Bureau is held by two factions on a rotational basis.
Although he is the secretary of state, if he wants to adjust the foreign trade exports, he basically can't avoid the forces of the other two factions. Either work with them or just stare at them, so he chooses the strongest centrists.
Now is the honeymoon period for both factions. Therefore, cooperation is inevitable, the situation of the separation of powers formed by the three parties in Australia in the future has been basically formed, no matter who comes to power, it is still difficult to meddle in some areas, such as the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which is the traditional field of the centrists, if Huang Fu forcibly intervenes, it will inevitably mess up the existing layout.
So in order to avoid this situation, Huang Fu thought of a feasible way to reorganize a department, which will also have certain rights and interests in foreign trade formulation, of course, they alone cannot establish this department.
So he invited Zhao Shijie to participate, and after some consideration, Zhao Shijie finally agreed to his invitation, after all, no matter how this matter is said, the centrist also occupies a certain advantage. It's just that it's not so easy for the conservatives, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was originally separated from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, has always been at a disadvantage, and now there is another eater, so you can imagine what will happen.
In order to react, the conservative Lao Wu expressed strong opposition to this, but it is clear that the conservatives are pressed by the two major factions and cannot be turbulent, and they are not capable of fighting back at all.
The Strategic Material Reserve Bureau, in the name of war readiness materials to expand the volume of trade, from which to obtain the right to foreign trade, this has become a fact, the first batch of goods have been sold through the channels of the Material Bureau to Daming, with the first success, Huang Fu's expectations for the future will naturally be higher, don't say anything against it, now the Ministry of Foreign Trade is also following the income, naturally will not say more.
Although they knew that they used the Materials Bureau to trade, the Materials Bureau's foreign trade authority was limited, and it was impossible to sell everything, otherwise with Zhao Shijie's shrewdness, how could this department be established, Huang Fu also knew that he couldn't shake the status of the big guy, so he didn't think about becoming the leader all of a sudden, but chose to slowly accumulate experience.
After all, the strength of the radicals overseas is weak, which cannot be compared with Zhao Shijie and them, and even departments such as the European Consulate General are all their people, so you can imagine what kind of situation it is.
Even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can't confront it head-on, which shows how strong the strength of the Ministry of Foreign Trade is, Huang Fu has not thought about splitting the Ministry of Foreign Trade, but the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which has been split once last time, may not be so easy to split at this time.
At present, although the radicals are strong, the centrists are not weak, and the centrists who have gradually developed have the strength to compete with the radicals in many fields, so Huang Fu does not dare to act easily at all, and once the judgment fails, he may suffer a more severe blow. (To be continued.) )