In April 1933, when the Kuomintang (KMT), which had ruled China for more than 20 years, finally withdrew from the stage of history, a new unified regime was born.

For the last time, the Southwest United Autonomous Government issued a political order in the name of the joint political axe, announcing that it was preparing to establish a new Chinese people's political axe, and completed two important tasks in two months: First, the final collection of the original Kuomintang local armed forces. Second, the formation of a new political axe.

At the same time, Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the Supreme Military Commission of the Southwest, announced the expansion of the Southwest People's Army into the Chinese People's Army, and this nascent army was mainly composed of about 80 division-level troops, except for the more than 40 divisions of the Southwest People's Army, which were originally directly under the southwest, and the rest were the former Kuomintang troops that were tentatively listed. Although there are quite a few of these former [***] divisions, they are all temporarily appointed by some carefully selected enlightened generals, such as the patriotic generals Zhang Xueliang, Song Zheyuan, Han Fuqu, Chen Cheng, Fu Zuoyi, Wang Mingzhang, Zhang Zizhong, Liu Jiaqi and other former [***] middle and senior generals, as well as Zhang Zhizhong, Xu Yongchang, Xue Yue, Tong Linge, Yang Hucheng, Cai Tingguang (the former commander of the 19th Division of the Jinjing Battlefield, renamed historical celebrities), Zhao Dengyu, Hu Zongnan and other former enlightened generals of the Kuomintang.

All of these generals have one thing in common: they have outstanding experience and rich experience in combat command, but they lack education in the most advanced military culture.

When appointing a temporary division commander, the Southwest Military Department also gave full consideration to whether a person can serve as a temporary division commander and become a reserve officer of the Chinese People's Army after the completion of the initial reorganization work under the new political axe.

First of all, whether this person has a bad record, this is the most important consideration, if the heinous generals of the Republic of China are mixed into the new army, even if they temporarily lead troops, and they are also heavily monitored by the main force of the original Southwest Army, it will also make the new political axe encounter a crisis.

Secondly, whether this person is capable enough to serve as a temporary division commander and be able to be transferred to a reserve officer at a later date. The talent aspect is also very detailed.

Finally, has this person ever strongly opposed the original Southwest Coalition political axe, if there is this, then I'm sorry, you can only unload your armor and return to the field, the new political axe definitely does not want this kind of careerist like the grass on the wall.

"Chairman, our integration plan goes something like this. In accordance with the previous expansion plan, a considerable part of the former [***] troops will be dismissed first, and a severance pay will be given, and they will be temporarily given a reserve establishment. The remaining [***] divisions will then be cross-reorganized, which is the first part of the reorganization of the entire new people's army.

Subsequently, we will mix the new editors of the original southwest with these [***] editors, and fundamentally eliminate any possible hidden dangers. Of course, in terms of officers, we are still transferring some outstanding officers from the original main forces, and this time the scope has been expanded to more than 20 elite divisions, and as long as officers at all levels have passed the inspection of the military department, they can go to the new units to take up posts.

In order to dispel the suspicions of a very small number of former generals, we will retain a very small number of outstanding officers, such as Zhang Zizhong, Chen Cheng and others, who will serve as division commanders and commanders of the people's army. However, before they can take up new military posts, they must join other generals and enter the Huaxia Military Academy for a period of one to three years of modern military education. ”

Zhang Shusheng closed the document, and with his browsing speed, he had already read the ten-page reorganization plan. There are too many things in the transitional period, although Sun Changqing has been the team leader, and Wei Sancai, Zhou Guolai and others have formed the Preparatory Committee for the New Deal Axe, but there are so many things that people are also too busy to breathe.

Although the preliminary work for the formation of the political axe began in January, when the war was progressing smoothly, all the work was still in full swing.

There are so many things, far beyond Zhang Shusheng's imagination, because he is not good at government affairs, what he does is to listen to reports and sign, and listen to the summary reports of all walks of life every day.

Although Sun Changqing, as the premier of the Government Council, can also make decisions on some things, he obviously regards many things as major matters and leaves them to Zhang Shusheng to make the general decision.

Although the Preparatory Committee for the New Deal can solve many problems, there are still many problems.

Fortunately, there is no need to immediately appoint or dismiss officials at all levels in various localities, but only need to implement temporary military control, which has given a certain buffer period to the southwest.

As early as January, political workers in southwest China began to appoint, dismiss, and appoint high-ranking officials below the provincial governor level in an orderly manner in accordance with the plan prepared in advance. As a result of the 15 years of large-scale free higher education in the southwest, the people's education level has been greatly improved, and the corresponding political workers are also very large; after the spread has spread to the six provinces in the southwest, many very talented people are still relegated to the township, township, and even city and county level officials, and there are also a large number of young officials in the new era who have come out of the southwest education system at all levels of the province and ministry.

The rejuvenation of officials is a major feature of the southwest, and in order to avoid some well-known problems, Zhang Shusheng is not prepared to directly retain officials in the Kuomintang system.

The first round of tests set for them is the public opinion test, if the public opinion test fails, it will be directly brushed off, and secondly, those who have violated the law and discipline such as exterminating criminals, bullying men and women, smuggling and drug trafficking, etc., will be directly expelled and will not be given the opportunity to evaluate the second round.

After passing the big net screening, compared with the outstanding officers of the former [***] who can enter military academies at all levels for further study and wait for the assessment, these preliminarily qualified government personnel of the former Kuomintang system will also enter the school to receive re-education, and if they pass the examination, they will take up new positions, and if they do not pass the test, they will go home to hold their children.

This is also the result of Zhang Shusheng's careful consideration, neither letting those moths get into the people, nor wasting talents. After all, although there is no shortage of political workers in the southwest, with the scale of the political talent pool in the six provinces of Bashu, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong, and Hainan, the southwest can even build a nationwide ruling shelf, and then carry out appropriate open social recruitment.

But his final decision gave these people one last chance. Through investigation, it was found that the matter of overturning a boat with a rod was indeed wrong, that is, there were indeed some honest and honest officials at all levels of the Kuomintang, but most of these people were depressed. Moreover, doing so is just giving these people a chance to 'enter' the exam, and if they can't pass it, they also have no chance. In a certain sense, these veteran officials, who do not have such problems as the Department of Criminals, do not have much more opportunities to compete for some grass-roots posts than a student who has graduated from an ordinary high school, junior college, or university.

Moreover, the assessment system with a high frequency will be quickly eliminated once those who are found to be unqualified, which is also the reason why Zhang Shusheng spent great efforts to build a clean government supervision system in his early years.

In fact, from the experience of later generations, Zhang Shusheng could have established a large-scale political party from the beginning, so that he could cultivate 'thousands of so-called loyal fighters', but such drawbacks are also clearly visible, and once the beginning is started, there is no good result at all in the future.

Think about it, if a political regime is a one-party dictatorship from head to toe, then no matter how sound the legal system is, it will still be biased. Proper control and decentralization of power is the way to long-term peace and stability.

In this way, politically, after controlling the middle and high-level political levels, the New Deal Axe will implement the strictest and fairest social recruitment for officials at the most basic level, and implement a tenure system and an election system. After the re-establishment of the party, the party organizations will be mainly concentrated in the middle and upper levels, while the strata that serve the people will be mainly elected by the people themselves. In this way, it is not only convenient for the central government to control the party organization, but also convenient for carrying out local open boiling.

Militarily, reintegration is imperative, and the arrangement of officers and the repatriation of soldiers will be carried out simultaneously during this transitional period.

"Well, the military department should pay attention to controlling risks, strictly guard against instability in some places, and cannot relax the surveillance of the [***] old department. I heard that many [***] troops in Hunan have gone into the mountains to become bandits, and we must pay close attention to the matter of suppressing bandits. Zhang Shusheng didn't want to get entangled in this reorganization plan, countless high-IQ staff officers discussed the plan countless times, and he just needed to grasp the general direction.

"Don't worry, the military department and the general staff have cooperated very well, and the response plan has been implemented very well, and the special intelligence department will also assist us. A plan to crack down on bandits is also underway, and it is expected that the bandits in the inland provinces will be completely eliminated within six months. ”

"Well, that's it, you go down first." Zhang Shusheng looked at the time, and it was already time for the next discussion.

After Wu Tiejun went out, Zhou Guolai of the Government Council walked in, and Zhou Guolai, who had already served as the deputy secretary general of the Government Council at this time, was regarded as the absolute main official of the Government Council, and he and Wei Sancai were like two carriages in the entire New Deal Axe Preparatory Committee, which could be called the busiest two people in the entire southwest party, government and military. According to the original report of the person in charge of the Central Security Office of the Southwest Political Axe, Zhou Guolai and Wei Sancai worked a lot of overtime all night, and both of them relied on their tough bodies to persevere.

"Chairman, the Central Committee meeting in 15 minutes will discuss major issues such as the founding of the party, the fixed capital, the national flag, and the national anthem.

Zhou Guolai handed the prepared discussion plan to Zhang Shusheng.

Zhang Shusheng rubbed his head, there is no trivial matter in state affairs, and in the former period of the southwest political axe, he may have waved his hand and let the people below do it, but now, he really can't let it go.

The political system to be adopted by the new policy axe has already been determined in Zhang Shusheng's mind, and the central dictatorship in the form of one party and one party will be adopted for a long time. It's just that he didn't say it explicitly, and he still wanted to see the reaction below. Although he was very sure that there would be many like-minded opinions from many people, he still wanted to see how the situation was.

After a brief look at the discussion plan, a few minutes passed, and then Zhou Guo looked at his watch and whispered that the time was almost up, and the two of them, accompanied by Mao Yunxian, confidential secretary general of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, and Lu Yunyan, director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, went to the temporary assembly hall not far away.

The whole venue is built very plainly, not extravagant, after all, there is no need to waste too much as a temporary venue. In the huge venue, the black pressure was full of political and military dignitaries at all levels in the southwest.

"Stand up!!"

In the southwest period, there were not many such conferences, and in his previous life, the situation of holding meetings every day made Zhang Shusheng too impressed, and in the Dongchuan period, he emphasized the pragmatic surname of the work efficiency and style of the political axe, and there were not too many such conferences.

However, seeing the more than 100 military and political dignitaries in the venue, Zhang Shusheng pressed it and signaled to sit down, and Wei Sancai, who was presiding over the meeting, announced to sit down.

The entire podium is in the same style as in the Southwest, with only three seats standing on it. The highest place is Zhang Shusheng's rostrum, behind which there are chairs of Secretary General Mao Yunxian and Office Director Lu Yunyan, while the lower position is the main podium, and not far from it is the deputy podium for the presiding officer of the conference.

The others, whether it was Wu Tiejun, the Minister of the Army, or Sun Changqing, the Government Council, all sat below, which was also a rule that had been established since the beginning of the southwest.

For meetings attended by Zhang Shusheng, the conference set up a rostrum, and without a meeting attended by Zhang Shusheng, only a speaking platform and a presiding platform were set up. The concept of superiority has not existed since the beginning of the southwest, and the so-called "leadership" cannot be mentioned, and everyone sits on an equal footing, at least in their seats, no longer one side is high on the mountain, and the other side looks up like a people of faith.

However, because Zhang Shusheng's position is not too high, it will not be abrupt, and the layout of the venue like the current one is similar to the stepped classroom in Zhang Shusheng's memory. For some large meetings that he does not attend, the layout of the circular venue will be adopted, so that there will not be a group of people holding the meeting in the direction of a rostrum without a rostrum.

"Comrades, in the military operation that lasted for more than five months, the southwest won the final victory......," Wei Sancai, as the presiding officer of the conference, delivered an opening speech, briefly described the current situation in China, and then invited Zhang Shusheng to speak.

Zhang Shusheng coughed lightly twice, and said slightly into the microphone, "Comrades, I have a thousand words, but I condense into one sentence, you have done your best in the past, and in the future, I also ask you to be great for the public, big for the country, and big for the people." Whether it was in Xiaoqingshan, the holy land of the revolution, Dongchuan, or later in the southwest, the reason why we have continued to make progress and win victories is that we have always put the people first, economic construction as the foundation, and the development of science and technology to enhance productive forces. We should follow the line of self-improvement and self-governance, and persist in punishing national thieves at home and rejecting strong enemies externally. The ruling area has become larger, but our political policy will not change, and our political title will change, but our political determination will not change.

The new policy is about to be formed, and many people will go to new jobs, with more power and wider scope, but I want to sound a wake-up call for everyone. No matter what happens in the future, as long as I, Zhang Shusheng, do not step down for a day, the land of China will not be able to turn the sky upside down.

No matter who it is, no. ”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

Zhang Shusheng's voice was densely applauded. Since the late period of the Southwest Alliance, his personality cult has risen to its peak, and this personality cult is unstoppable and no force can change it. Even if Zhang Shusheng himself spoke, it would be difficult to stop this kind of personality cult against him.

Not because of anything else, but because of the tremendous victories that the southwest has won at home and abroad, and because of a series of major achievements in the military, science and technology, economy, education, and culture.

These things have made his prestige, from the civilian to the military and political high-level, absolutely climb to the peak.

Of course, he also knew that there was something else in this applause. Some people may simply worship and believe in themselves, while others see the upcoming higher political status, and some people see the opportunity to make a name for themselves and leap onto the Chinese political stage.

This is inevitable, when you come out to mix, some people will always be beaten down, and some people will always come out. This is a question of taking sides, the southwest has won, and these people who started with the start will also reap a small part of the fruits of victory.

Compared with Zhang Shusheng's strength, compared with the harsh laws formulated in the southwest from the beginning, these people may go all the way honestly, but they will also launch a constant sprint to the peak of power.

As long as this kind of officialdom promotion does not evolve into factional strifes like cliques and officialdom earthquakes, he is happy to see it, and he can't stifle a person's primitive **, so he should be an appropriate bystander.

"I believe that our new policy should adopt a system similar to that of the Western Führer, which not only avoids the impact of public opinion brought about by the imperial system, but also concentrates power in the Führer ......"

"I propose to adopt a monarchical ......"

…… Sure enough, the enthusiasm for discussion at the conference was very high, and after Zhang Shusheng expressed his position and signaled everyone to discuss freely, the first issue entered a heated debate. To Zhang Shusheng's surprise, a considerable number of people actually demanded the adoption of a broad monarchy. Although it is not an empire in the direct sense, nor is it a purely Western constitutional monarchy, the fundamental purpose of this broad-based monarchy is definitely an extremely important step towards the monarchy.

Of course, there are also some people who believe that the current time is not appropriate, and if the monarchy is adopted, it will have a certain negative impact on the image of the political axe, and it is better to temporarily adopt the head of state system, and then change it when the time is ripe.

Although there are some other nonsense proposals, they are mainly focused on these two big discussions.

A considerable faction in the military, dominated by Zhuge Sheng and others, resolutely demanded the adoption of a monarchy, while Wu Tiejun remained silent, while the political axe faction basically agreed with the head of state, and the results of the discussion at the congress would not be announced on the spot, but would be announced by the Government Council later.

Subsequently, discussions were held on the building of the party and other issues.

This issue of party building was raised by Zhang Shusheng, because a political party is indeed conducive to cohesion, and a simple political axe and a simple belief will have an adverse impact for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The discussion on the issue of party building went very smoothly, and thanks to Zhang Shusheng's instructions, Zhou Guolai, secretary general of the State Council, who made the speech, had already announced a general plan for the formation of a political party.

First of all, the party will be named the Baath Party, with Zhang Shusheng as the party leader, and the Preparatory Committee for the Founding of the Party will be led by Premier Sun Changqing and Secretary General of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee Mao Yunxian, and the Preparatory Committee for the New Deal will work at the same time.

The Central Committee of the Baath Party will set up a six-member group from Zhang Shusheng onwards, namely, Premier Sun Changqing, Vice Premier Wei Sancai, Cai Yi, who will be the Minister of National Defense of the New Political Axe, Jiang Baili, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Three Armed Forces and Chief of General Staff, Wu Tiejun, Minister of the Army, and Zhang Xueliang, Deputy Commander of the Three Armed Forces, who will enter the Party Central Committee as the only 'outsiders'.

On the basis of the party leader and the six-member group, the lower layers of screening will be implemented, and among the middle-level and above personnel in the military and political aspects, the group of old people in the Dongchuan period will be given the highest priority to enter the list of party members, and the old people in the southwest will be given priority to enter the second batch of party member candidate lists, and the remaining third and fourth batches of party inspection objects will be appropriately inspected according to their qualifications and positions, and the list will be put forward by the committee assessment, reviewed by the six-member committee, and Zhang Shusheng will finally confirm it as the final result, so it is decided that the Baath Party will not have too many party members. Moreover, Zhang Shusheng insisted on adding restrictions on party members to the party program in several aspects, such as the inspection of party members' joining the party, and the requirements for joining the party will be very high.

"Next, the conference entered the fourth discussion session, and the delegates discussed issues such as the capital, the national flag, and the national anthem."

Wei Sancai announced that the congress had entered a later stage, but in fact, the military and political dignitaries attending the congress were more concerned about the issues of party building and the political system. Even a steady old man in the southwest, such as Wu Tiejun, also actively expressed his opinions, and compared with the previous discussion proposals, these issues are harmless, and everyone is willing to participate.

The congress discussed these issues in the capital very freely, expressing their opinions, and some delegates even fought for the red face within the discipline allowed by the congress.

"I think Kunming is very good, and Chengdu and Chongqing are also good."

"Lao Luo, although Kunming and Chengdu-Chongqing are good, they are too far from the southwest, which is not conducive to the new policy axe to control the situation in the whole country."

"Since it is the capital, it must be Beiping, the thousand-year-old capital ......"

"The geographical location of Beiping is too northern, which is not conducive to controlling the south, northwest and southwest, I think Wuhan should be chosen!"

"Wuhan is definitely not good, Wuhan has not been the capital since ancient times, whether it is feng shui or geographical location, I don't think it will work, the problem of the capital, I think it is still necessary to choose a city near the sea, but not too close to the north and south ends. I think Nanjing is a good fit. ”

"Nanjing, definitely not."

"Why can't Nanjing? The Six Dynasties are the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, see if Chiang Kai-shek also chose there. ”

"The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, have you ever heard of a dynasty with long luck? What happened to Chiang Kai-shek in the end? Since ancient times, the land of Jinling has been full of rouge and lack of luck. ”

"Your statement is not right, the New Deal Axe advocates scientific civilization, how do you say that your old Liu uses feng shui and luck to talk about things."

"There is no small thing in the country, naturally we must be cautious, feng shui has been said through the ages, and it is also a fact that the six dynasties have a short life, anyway, my personal opinion, Nanjing is definitely not good."

…… Zhang Shusheng did not express his opinion, just listened like this, he came from later generations, and happened to hear the so-called controversy of many historians on the issue of the fixed capital, and it happened that the points said by these congress delegates, he had heard similar arguments in later generations.

"Shen Xing, what do you think is good?"

Lu Yunyan sat upright and handed Zhang Shusheng a document, he thought it was something important, but when he saw it, it turned out that Lu Yunyan also cared about where the capital was. At home before, she and He Ning couldn't wait to ask him what he meant, but unfortunately Zhang Shusheng was tight-lipped and said that it was not until the final announcement moment and did not mention it.

As a result, Lu Yunyan still couldn't hold back.

Zhang Shusheng didn't answer directly, he simply wrote a few words, "Good wife, guess, I have a prize if you guess correctly." ”

Looking at the words on the notepad, Lu Yunyan secretly rolled his eyes, and really began to choose in his heart, and after he was about to go back, he instigated He Ning to choose too, and see who chose correctly-

(To be continued)