Chapter 464 Reorganization Plan

The bitter autumn wind tore at the barren grass on the hillside. The yellow sand stained what should have been a blue sky a dull yellow. A column of military vehicles meandered along the narrow improvised highway and drove into the outskirts of Nanjing City in the eyes of countless people. This is a unit of the 41st Group Army under the former Chahar, and it has now been transferred by Su Tong to defend the capital.

When his term of office arrived in early October, no matter whether Chairman Chiang wanted to or not, he had no choice but to hand over the power in his hands.

After reaching the pinnacle of the country's highest power, the first thing Su Tong did when he took office was to reorganize the structure of the government department. After a round of consultations, it was finally decided to introduce a presidential system, with the president being the supreme leader of a country and the supreme commander of all the armed forces of the country.

The following is the State Council, the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and other major functional departments.

Su Tong immediately appointed Li Zongren as premier of the State Council, Jiang Baili as minister of national defense, Bai Chongxi as chief of general staff, Gao Zhihang as commander of the air force, and Chen Shaokuan as commander of the navy. In short, Su Tong replaced almost all the high-level positions of the former Congress Party.

What surprised Su Tong was that in the process of replacement, the former National Congress party layer, who originally thought that they would take the opportunity to make a few fuss, were now as well-behaved as rabbits, and no one jumped out. This couldn't help but make Chief Su, who had already raised his guillotine high and was about to take the opportunity to cut off a few heads.

For the sake of the balance of the government, in order to appease the opposition parties such as the Congress Party and the Social Workers' Party, and in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the follow-up army reorganization plan in the coming days, Su Tong also appointed Chairman Chiang and Gu Yue as vice presidents.

After serving as the leader of a country, things are complicated, and Su Tong finally understands what it means to be in a hurry, in short, it is just one word, 'busy', busy without touching the ground.

Su Tong knows that as the strength of morality is getting stronger and stronger, the process of World War II is getting closer and closer, and there is less and less time left for him, and how to seize the time to prepare in less than a year is his main task at present.

Therefore, after more than a month of intense government reshuffle, Su Tong proceeded to the second and most important thing, that is, his long-planned national army reorganization plan. The current Chinese domestic army has different orders, and there are also miscellaneous numbers such as the miscellaneous army, the central army, the regular army, the security forces, the militia group, and so on. In Su Tong's view, the reform of the army is imperative.

A large conference room at the Nanjing Presidential Palace (formerly the leader's residence) was filled with high-ranking officials.

Today is the first high-level government meeting held by Su Tong since he assumed the presidency, and the participants include almost all high-level officials of the military and government. Chairman Jiang, well, it should be called Vice President Jiang now, looking at the young man sitting in the first place, he sighed in his heart, once upon a time, the little warlord who stood in front of him and was honestly afraid has now become his boss, and there is nothing more wonderful in the world than this.

When Xi Hanqian, who served as the secretary general of the government, read out the agenda of the meeting, everyone in the conference room fell silent, and the whole team was reorganized and gave a unified order. It's such a big issue, this sentence is simple to say, but it is a problem that no one has been able to solve since the founding of the Republic of China. Because there are so many problems involved in this matter, all aspects of things can simply drive people crazy.

"Why, don't you all have anything to say? Or is there no objection to this plan? Su Tong looked at the participants with a smile and said.

"I have a question, please ask the president!" At this time, he stood up next to him and asked Su Tong in a loud voice.

Su Tong saw that it was Long Yun, the current chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government. Su Tong smiled: "It turned out to be Chairman Long, please have something to say." ”

"May I ask the president, now that our army has a total of at least five million, according to your plan, we will dismiss two million unqualified soldiers, so how will those personnel who have been withdrawn after the reorganization of the army be resettled?"

Su Tong nodded and said: "That's a good question, those troops who have been withdrawn can return to their hometowns, and those officers who have retired from active duty early can also receive monthly pensions from the government according to their respective military ranks." The government is ready to provide 400 million gold yuan in coupons to house these evacuees. ”

"Four hundred million!" The attendees gasped. What is the concept of 400 million gold yuan coupons? Up to now, due to its strong price and good credit, the original gold yuan bills issued by Chahar in the local area have replaced the original fiat currency in a very short period of time and become a common currency in China. Su Tong took out 400 million gold yuan coupons, which means that the two million personnel who were withdrawn from the army can get a subsidy of 200 yuan each, which is almost the salary of half a year for a worker today.

With this money, those unqualified soldiers who have been dismissed believe that they can also use this small money to go home and start a small business, and they don't have to worry about losing their lives in the future.

In Su Tong's view, the reason why the previous reorganization could not be carried out was because the central government had no money and could not settle the old, weak, sick and disabled people who had been dismantled from the army, and there were also various officers and generals, who had touched the guns for most of their lives, and had no life skills except for fighting, and they were worried that they would have no life after being dismissed, so they desperately resisted. In a word, you can't do anything without money.

After listening to Su Tong's assurance, the participants couldn't help but be secretly surprised in their hearts, this Su Tong is really not ordinary rich, and he is willing to take out such a large sum of money to settle those soldiers who have been dismissed, so the life support work of those officers and generals after retirement must be true.

In this plan, Su Tong reorganized the army into 150 infantry divisions, 30 artillery divisions, and a total of about 3.5 million army units, and at the same time, the air force was also reorganized into 13 aviation divisions and five bombing brigades, with a total of more than 4,300 aircraft. After the reorganization, the troops will be completely reequipped, and the equipment standards will be based on the original Chahar troops.

This round of topics blew up the participants, did this Su Tong really have such a big deal to change the troops? This is not a small amount, the equipment required for the collective refitting of more than 3 million troops is an astronomical amount, and no matter how rich Chahar is, he may not be able to support it, right?

But seeing Su Tong's unchanged face announcing that he would complete the reorganization and refitting plan of the troops within half a year, the participants couldn't help but hesitate, could it be that the above person really had such a great ability to complete this seemingly impossible plan?

But Su Tong on the stage didn't care what the people below thought, as early as six months ago, Su Tong ordered Niu Ben at the moon base to start producing ordnance in full force in order to prepare for today's plan.

Su Tong is also moving forward step by step for his long-planned nationalization of the army, and he firmly believes that with his efforts, he will definitely do it.

This session of the meeting came to an end in a burst of doubts, whether people believe it or not, or whether they want it or not, Su Tong has to go firmly according to his plan, and at the same time he is also ready to kill and hold up the butcher's knife, because the time left for him in World War II is running out, and he has no time to slowly reason with these warlords who have been entrenched in various places for a long time. At the same time as Su Tong was holding the meeting, he had already ordered his 700,000 troops to go to all parts of the country, and more than 1,200 fighters of the five newly formed air divisions were also stationed at various airports throughout the country to prepare for possible riots. The military commanders of the various units received Su Tong's handwritten orders that once there was an army mutiny or riot, they would be ruthlessly suppressed and would not be tolerated or connived at.

After the meeting was adjourned, our new Vice President Chiang returned to his residence with heavy steps, and Mrs. Chiang and Mr. Chiang, who had been waiting at home for a long time, hurriedly greeted him.

"Father, how was this meeting going?" Jiang Gongzi hurriedly asked.

"Alas!" Vice President Jiang sighed, "This Su Jianming, why didn't I see it?" He turned out to be such a decisive person! At the meeting just now, he announced his decision to reorganize the entire armed forces of the whole country within six months and to dismiss the old, weak, sick and disabled. The army of more than 3 million will be retained, and it will be unified under the leadership of the central government. ”

"Isn't it?" Jiang Gongzi couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and then asked suspiciously: "What about the generals in our army?" Will the warlords everywhere listen to him? ”

Vice President Jiang glared at his son, "Do you think that Su Jianming is just shouting slogans?" He had already sent his 700,000 troops to various parts of the country, and in order to cope with the impending situation, he had also stationed more than 1,000 planes throughout the country. At the meeting, he dared to brazenly declare that anyone who dared to obstruct the army reorganization plan would be a sinner of the country, and he would not hesitate to order the use of force to suppress it. What's more, he is not empty talk, but people have taken out 400 million gold yuan coupons of real money to reorganize, and the truth is occupied by others, and whoever dares to jump out against it in that case is purely to find himself unhappy. ”

"400 million gold yuan coupons? Darling, does that Su Tong really have so much money? Mrs. Jiang on the side couldn't help but cover her small mouth.

"There shouldn't be any fakes about this, and no one would joke on such an occasion." Vice President Jiang sighed, "But I also think it's strange that the Japanese have already launched our territory, and now should be a good time to recuperate, why does Su Tong still have such a huge plan of three million troops, and he also announced a package of military expansion plans at the meeting just now, does he still have to prepare for war?" ”