Chapter 216: The Million-Dollar Expansion
After Taiwan's return to the motherland, millions of people on the island rejoiced. In the 39 years since this forcibly occupied the treasure island of Taiwan, it has exercised unprecedented high-pressure rule, and there are more than 80 laws and regulations on the death penalty alone, not counting the wanton massacres of the Yue army, and thousands of innocent Chinese are executed every year.
According to the preliminary statistical report of the Taiwan Provincial Political Axe, the total number of Chinese killed by the Yue army during the entire 39 years of reunification was about 240,000, and although some of them were a small number of resistance organizations that were massacred and eliminated, more large were innocent civilians who were wantonly killed.
As soon as the machine gun sounded, the Chinese fell in pieces, and the Chinese in Taiwan wanted to resist, but they couldn't even get a gun shotgun, and the best weapon was a big knife and spear. The political axe of the late Qing Dynasty and the political axe of the Republic of China turned a blind eye to the disaster of Baodao, and they were unable to take it back, and they could not even do diplomatic condemnation, and they were all 'smart' to choose the surname deaf.
"Chairman of the National Committee, in the past 39 years, it is really the bloody history of my treasure island, several thousands of people have been found in Taipei, Hualien and other places alone, and in Kaohsiung, Tainan, a horrific mass grave has been discovered."
Zhou Guolai, vice minister of foreign affairs and director of the Department of Asian Affairs and the Department of Chinese Studies, was reporting to Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the Supreme People's Congress, on the situation in Taiwan.
Zhang Shusheng has never heard these data in later generations, but he vaguely remembers that several historians said that during the dark years in Taiwan, the number of Chinese who died under his hands was no less than one Nanjing Massacre. In the original history, these shocking data may have been covered up intentionally or unintentionally because the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan.
These situations mentioned by Zhou Guo were clues obtained after the Taiwan Provincial Political Axe dispatched capable police to cooperate with the army to conduct a statistical survey of the suffering people and at the same time interrogate the traitors of the Han Dynasty. Thus these appalling pits of a thousand people, and even mass graves, were discovered.
"Shocking, shocking." Although Zhang Shusheng didn't say much, he was angry in his heart, his arrival changed the national catastrophe of the Nanjing Massacre, but he was powerless to change the history of Taiwan's occupation. Otherwise, according to Zhang Shusheng's personal wishes, he even hoped that this war would continue, and that the Huaxia Tiger Army's army would fight until Tokyo, and the entire Imperial Family would be bloodied in order to fill the hatred in his heart. Now it is not a matter of time, and it is said that there will be a decisive battle sooner or later.
"Chairman, about a fifth of these massacres were committed by the puppet police and puppet soldiers. These traitors really forgot their ancestors and their roots, and in order to be their own dogs, they also killed their compatriots. The chairman's order could not have been better, and I firmly supported it. ”
Zhou Guolai refers to Zhang Shusheng's previous order strictly prohibiting the flight of any Chinese. At the time of implementation, there was no opposition within the Ba'ath Party and among senior political officials, but there were some different discussions. Some people think that since they are traitors of the Han Dynasty, they can let them go to their own capital, and it is their own loss to leave China, which is developing in a blowout. Some people also believe that some of these Han traitors were originally born during the period of unification, and their identification with the mainland is too low. It was even mentioned that those children ...... For these discussions, Zhang Shusheng should only turn a deaf ear. When he gave the order, he did not expand the incident, blindly executing all the traitors and even their families to death, but only asked to find out the history and settle accounts with those real traitors of the Han Dynasty. Regardless of whether he was born before or after the unification, a brute who has the audacity to attack his own compatriots and exchange the blood and lives of his compatriots for his own approval will be executed absolutely.
During the period of reunification, relying on the protection of Yue himself, for the sake of glory and wealth, for the sake of promotion and wealth, he did not treat his compatriots as compatriots and wantonly killed. Seeing that Taiwan was about to return, he wanted to flee to his hometown, but he walked away, relying on the 'achievements' of the previous massacre of compatriots in exchange for a good life in Yue. For this kind of person, Zhang Shusheng will never forgive.
The settlement of accounts after the autumn is to administer justice for those innocent and dead compatriots, so that their souls in heaven can rest in peace, and watch these real executioners bow down to the law. Of course, after the execution of the real traitors and the confiscation of their illegal property, their families were still not held accountable. As for Li Jinlong's father and son, they are outliers. Li Jinlong organized a resistance force, intending to rely on his men's guns to turn into a resistance force, and Lee Teng-hui died a well-deserved death, and this old demon decades later was carried by his old ghost father and jumped off the cliff, which can be regarded as cheapening them.
"Whoever strikes at his compatriots, the political axe will strike at him. Even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he will not have the opportunity to enjoy the life of a rich man. Zhang Shusheng said lightly, the Chinese's original surname is cowardly, easy to forget the roots, and the hatred also dissipates quickly. Later generations of Jews were the opposite, and after the end of World War II, the Nazis thought they would get away with it, but who knew that they were secretly executed by various hunting and killing organizations. Now, what New China wants to do is to carry out a comprehensive liquidation of the traitors who annihilated the Han Dynasty, and of course, under the condition of doing its utmost to avoid misjudgment and misjudgment, it is necessary to conduct a public trial, report by the whole people, and publish and verify the results.
Zhang Shusheng will not let things go to extremes, but what should be done, the new policy axe must be done, and it must be liquidated in Taiwan and the mainland. The kind of Han annihilation lackeys who even dripped the blood of the Chinese people on every hair on their bodies, thought that they could hide in the deep ravine for a few months and a half and become a rich man when they came out, but they were wrong from the beginning.
There have been many grasses on the wall since ancient times, not to mention that at a time when this kind of nation is in danger of survival, it is even more obvious that the great annihilation, great evil, great loyalty and righteousness are fully displayed.
In the morning, he and Zhou Guolai discussed some policy issues in the next few years, and in the afternoon, Defense Minister Cai Yi and General Staff Chief Jiang Baili came to the Führer's Office Center to ask some questions about the upcoming large-scale reorganization.
Among the various departments of New China, the Ministry of Defense is somewhat different from that of later generations, and some are similar to the system of the United States. The Ministry of National Defense is more powerful, and it is not subordinate to the Government Council, but to the Supreme War Department of the People's Republic of China. The General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, and the General Armament Department are all subordinate organs.
Within the military, officers and men at all levels refer to the Supreme War Department as the Supreme Military Department.
The new military structure will be the separation of command and management, for example, the general staff of the three services will not be subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense, but will be subordinate to and under the command of the Supreme Operations Department. Whether in wartime or peacetime, Zhang Shusheng personally served as the minister's supreme operations department, which can also be called the base camp of the future head of state, with the sole supreme command.
Jiang Baili, who served as the head of the General Staff, was not only the honorary deputy commander of the three services, but also the deputy director of the Supreme Operations Department and the future head of the Führer's base camp general staff.
Therefore, the entire armed forces are in two lines, with military management going down from the Ministry of National Defense and military command and mobilization going down from the Supreme Operations Department. The Ministry of Defense does not have separate command and command powers, except for forwarding orders from the Supreme Military Ministry.
Therefore, the General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of Defense jointly formulated a plan for this major reorganization.
"Chairman of the National People's Congress, at present China's regular military forces are composed of three parts, the former Southwest People's Army, the former Kuomintang Army, and the former Northeast Army. The total number is 1253885, including 40,000 in the Navy including the Marine Corps and 35,000 in the Air Force. The irregular military forces are mainly reserve forces in the former southwest. The number of soldiers in this part is about 214926. In other words, China currently has a total of about 1.47 million combat units, 1.395 million army, and 75,000 navy and air force. In addition, because the People's Republic of China has just been founded, there are only about 500,000 police forces in the country, and most of them, except for a small number of demobilized and demobilized servicemen, are recruited from schools at all levels across the country and have been appointed to posts through special training. Some special tasks, such as the suppression of bandits, also require the participation of special operations units drawn from the garrison units. ”
Cai Yi briefly introduced the current composition of China's military strength, and made a brief analysis of this composition, "On the surface, our military strength is relatively strong, for example, compared with the military strength of the French about 83 divisions, we do not seem to suffer in numbers. However, France's territory is smaller than ours, and its land area is only the size of a large Chinese province.
On the other hand, although the military pressure in the south and west is very small, the military pressure in the north and northeast is very large. Leaving aside for the time being, the total length of our territorial border with Soviet Russia is more than 12,500 kilometers, and in addition to the Far Eastern military forces that have to confront Soviet Russia in the northeast, there are a lot of potential military conflicts with Soviet Russia in the areas north of Mongolia and the areas north and east of Xinjiang Province. In this way, we will inevitably have to station a heavy army in northern China. ”
Jiang Baili, Chief of the General Staff, added: "Although the Red Soviet Russia has just undergone a terrible purge of the army, their army is still the largest in the world. It is generally believed that the Soviet Union only has more than 160 divisions, but the exact number should be more than 260, and the regular army is about 2.4 million people, including many reserve troops, and even militia, and the military strength of Soviet Russia can reach a frightening 3-5 million in a short period of time. At the same time, the number of troops, whether it was the British, the French, or the Germans, was far surpassed by this red ice bear. As for the Americans, there is a regular army of less than 100,000. ”
Zhang Shusheng nodded, listening to the analysis of the two, but remembered that he had checked in advance the various [***] forces before and after World War II.
According to the original history, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II, Soviet Russia was able to reach more than 300 divisions, the French were able to have more than 100 divisions, the Germans had more than 190 divisions and more than 7 million people, the British were a little less than the French, and the Americans were even less.
However, when this world war, which was far larger than the First World War, broke out in an all-round way, the situation of a super-large-scale war, which was appalling and unanticipated by the whole world, created many miracles and brought huge disasters to the whole world.
On the ninth day of the outbreak of the war, the Soviet Union expanded its army to nearly 10 million, and at its peak, the Soviets armed more than 12 million regular troops, a very frightening number, not counting troop losses, maintaining a wartime military force of 12 million people, has reached the point where all the people are soldiers. At its peak, the United States had tens of millions of troops, and Ben had more than 6 million at its peak.
This is only in terms of troops, equipment, throughout World War II, the Soviets produced more than 100,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, and the more perverted Americans, at the peak of 10 million troops, were able to produce 40,000 aircraft and more than 20,000 tanks per year. Throughout World War II, the United States produced more than 80,000 tanks.
These figures are like a fantasy, even if Zhang Shusheng told Cai Ye and Jiang Baili as a joke, the two would not believe it, after all, these data are too outrageous.
However, Zhang Shusheng knew that these were things that really happened in the original history, and the entire World War II was a period of global madness.
If it is not according to the original history, according to Zhang Shusheng's plan, the military strength of various countries will usher in a greater blowout, for example, the Soviets, Germans, French, Americans, etc., will have more troops, more tanks, more aircraft.
Under this premise, in 1934, which was not too early, although it was not necessary for China's military power to expand to the point of dragging down the country's finances, it was absolutely necessary to ensure that it could "be absolutely defensive, absolutely offensive, and rapidly expand its army." These three requirements.
"I've read all of the plans you made in the end. Each of the three options has its own starting point. Zhang Shusheng pointed to several plans on the table, he just spent 20 minutes to read them all, the first plan, the country's military force to retain 700,000 regular troops, the number of troops is 600,000, and the surplus troops are converted into reserves. This is the most conservative plan and the most out of the perspective of all-out economic development.
The second plan is to retain 1.2 million regular troops and 1 million army forces in the country's military force, and expand the navy and air force. While following the line of strengthening the army's elite troops, we should comprehensively enhance the combat effectiveness of the sea and air forces. Contrary to the first plan, it is proposed to retain the elite units of the former [***] and the Northeast Army, strengthen military training, culture and education, and improve the combat effectiveness of these integrated troops.
The third plan is to expand the whole army to 1.8 million people, the navy and air force to 300,000 people, the army to retain 1.5 million people, and a considerable number of reserve forces. This plan not only retained the original military strength, but also called for the expansion of the army.
"Of these three aspects, the first one is too conservative, the second one is more general, and the third one is more in line with my ideas. However, the combat force of the army should be expanded to 1.8 million, and the number of the navy and air force should be tentatively set at 300,000, for a total of 2.1 million. ”
After all, according to the plan, this third plan is already the largest military expansion plan, and the entire military budget will be in trouble, and it is necessary to submit a special military budget to ensure that this army expansion and reorganization plan can be completed within two years. After all, even if the army is expanded, it will not be completed in one or two months, and the term of the third plan is two years.
"Chairman, in this way, the financial burden of the central government will be very large." Jiang Baili frowned and said, in fact, he is still inclined to New China to adopt a conservative defense policy in the early stage, and the military strength of 1.8 million will be expanded in two years, which is already a week after he hesitated for a week before finally taking the idea and writing it into the plan for Zhang Shusheng to see.
Cai Ye also frowned slightly, the military strength of 1.8 million people, according to the most general calculation, combined with the current purchasing power of the RMB, a worker's salary of 10 yuan a month, a soldier's monthly salary of 15 yuan, military salary alone needs 300 million yuan. If we take into account the cost of training, equipment, and so on, the annual military expenditure will reach 1.5 billion yuan, or even more. Judging from the exchange rate between the renminbi and the U.S. dollar in 1934, 1 renminbi was about 1.5 U.S. dollars, which is still a scary expense.
In 1932 and 1933, the military expenditures in the two years were mainly wars and wars of liberation, with the war of liberation being relatively low and the fighting costs of the army in the northeast being relatively large, but also reaching the scale of military expenditures of 30 to 4 billion yuan per year. This is still after the mobilization of a very large number of civilian logistics forces.
Although the war went smoothly and the southwest was rich, the war in the past two years was not lost due to a shortage of military funds or insufficient logistics. But in the long run, an army of 2.1 million people is indeed an invisible burden.
And Zhang Shusheng also has his own considerations, after all, China's background is not as deep as that of Western countries, and the reserve system is not as perfect as Germany. After the outbreak of World War II, countries frantically expanded their armies, the reserve system collapsed in an instant, and a large number of new recruits were put into the battlefield after only a short period of training, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands, or even millions.
This is the result of the inadequate training of recruits and the inadequacy of the preparation of countries. If China also retains only a few hundred thousand or even a million regular military forces, then after the war begins, China will be able to mobilize only 3-4 million people, and the rest will have to expand its army frantically.
The end result is that the [***] team, like the armies of other Western countries, will only see the immediate benefits, so they will eventually expand their troops in a hurry, sending recruits who know nothing to the front and let them be shot by the enemy in a frenzy.
Red Soviet Russia is the most typical negative example of this, frantically expanding its army, and even frantically sending troops to the front line when the German troops were attacking Moscow. However, the mortality rate of these recruits is surprisingly high, and the combat effectiveness is surprisingly low. Although the Germans were not much better, they were still superior, and the Russians lost face in the battle losses.
As a country with an equally vast territory, if it is only for the sake of economic development, which leads to the delay in military development, then in the future, millions or even tens of millions of lives will be used to make up for the retribution brought about by the billions or two billion military expenditures saved for the sake of the economy today.
Only by maintaining a considerable number of regular troops today will it be possible to expand a large-scale army on this basis in the future, and if the base is too small, everything will be empty talk.
Of course, economic construction must be carried out in an all-round way, and China's rejuvenation is unstoppable, but it also requires the collective efforts of the whole country, and funds are certainly indispensable. In order to increase military spending, it is necessary to find a compensatory outlet.
In this regard, Zhang Shusheng also thought about it.
"In terms of military spending, you don't have to worry, I have decided to increase the annual profit of Shusheng Company from 1 billion to 2 billion. This is enough for us to expand our army, and we can even have extra money for building up the reserve forces. ”
Zhang Shusheng is not a mouthful, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the strength of the Shusheng company has been further expanded, although the political axe has formed many state-owned enterprises, but the Shusheng company also relies on almost harsh terms, and has obtained a lot of energy, transportation, electricity, social life in the national strategic industry management rights, of course, the condition is that the ultra-high profits are handed over and the corresponding company has a high amount of national shares. The country needs the huge financial resources of Shusheng company, advanced social science and technology, mature technical reserves, and Shusheng company needs to continue to expand, and this new situation of public-private cooperation is also an economic development situation under special circumstances.
On the other hand, the GDP of the same period, the total value is less than 30 billion yuan, only behind the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, Britain and France, and the difference between Britain and France is not big, it can be said that it is very small, at least completely more than Italy, this is the entire half of China, southwest China in the 15 years of economic construction has made great achievements. After all, the industrial system in the southwest is very perfect, especially in foreign trade, and the advanced products represented by automobiles, mid-range electronic products, advanced medicines, chemical supplies, clothing, high-end food, and munitions have unwittingly made amazing profits in countries around the world. In the machinery industry, New China only sells machinery of Western countries, and the electronics industry only sells practical ordinary technical products.
However, Shusheng Company has to bear 20 billion yuan of profits, and after calculating the value of the state-owned shares of these corresponding monopoly public-private joint ventures, Shusheng Company's contribution to New China even exceeds that of state-owned enterprises with the same number of companies.
"Chairman, this, this...... It's not good. ”
Cai Ye was so shocked that he couldn't sit still, everyone knows that Shusheng Company is the chairman's starting company, not to mention the chairman's great contribution to New China, Shusheng Company's contribution to New China is even more huge to imagine, it can be said that without this giant Shusheng company, the industrial revolution of New China, the industrial revolution in the southwest period can not be completed at all. Even if Zhang Shusheng treats Shusheng Company the same way, holding on to the industries of these countries and giving people money and technology, he will not be able to achieve this kind of money-making and development efficiency.
There is only one reason, and the fundamental difference between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises lies in the issue of efficiency. Especially in the early stage, a huge company will leave these national enterprises that are constantly groping for progress far behind.
Now, however, the chairman of the NPC National Committee is once again paying out of his own pocket to cover part of the military expenses.
Jiang Baili also disagreed with this approach, "Chairman, although this can solve the urgent need, but in the long run, it is not good for Shusheng Company and the political axe's finances." I think it's better to find another way to fill this gap, although the chairman of the committee is concerned about the country, but Shusheng Company is your private property. However, the laws and regulations of the New Deal are very important for the protection of private property, and the chairman of the committee cannot start this way. ”
Jiang Baili knows that although it seems that Shusheng Company has taken advantage of the country, but in fact, the country has taken advantage of Shusheng Company, first there is Shusheng Company, and then there is New China, it can be said that if Shusheng Company is not Zhang Shusheng's, but someone else's, then, this company is suffering from beginning to end.
Zhang Shusheng waved his hand and said, "I have made up my mind, you don't need to say it anymore." I never thought of turning Shusheng Company into a state-owned enterprise, nor did I think of using the state to fatten Shusheng Company. New China and Shusheng Company are complementary, so there will be no question of who suffers too much loss and who takes too much advantage, and this point will be seen by hundreds of millions of Chinese in the next hundred or thousand years. Because, at that time, Shusheng Company and China will be a different concept, rather than being limited to one side now. ”
When the news of the expansion broke, the entire People's Army was boiling.
This is a special era, who does not want the country to be strong, the army to be strong, just won the victory in the Sino-Chinese war, just ushered in the liberation situation, the people of the whole country are still in jubilation, let alone the army.
The army does not think about the economy, does not think about anything else, their greatest will is to be strong and powerful, to be stronger.
If China wants to rise, it will inevitably face many tiger and wolf enemies, so only by expanding the army and building a more powerful people's army can we defeat all the enemies on the battlefield in the future.
In fact, when the earliest news of the reorganization came out, many people could not sleep at night, and people of insight were afraid that after the founding of the country, the country would put down its military and turn to the development of the economy with all its might, so that the soldiers would be discharged and returned to the countryside.
In this special era, in this era when the whole people are bent on rejuvenation, if the pursuit of power and wealth is an instinct, then it is almost 90% of people's thoughts to dedicate themselves to the country and work, study, and fight for the rise of New China.
From the elderly to the young people who study and serve the country, they are all enthusiastic, patriotic, and dedicated.
When the news of the military expansion was confirmed, everyone was thinking about the same thing: the strength of New China was just around the corner.
Because, in the minds of the people, the economy is invisible, and the strength of the army versus otherwise can be concretized by some figures.
After the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff jointly announced the start of a large-scale military expansion, another bombshell news came: New China is about to carry out the first large-scale military title conferral after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
(To be continued)