"The political and ideological work of the army should be put in the first place, and an army without ideology and belief will have no soul and combat effectiveness." Wang Zhenyu is giving a lecture to the members of the Political Guidance Department to be formed by the Youth Army, which Wang Zhenyu decided to set up after thinking about a problem.

In fact, this question has been bothering Wang Zhenyu for a long time, and simply put, it is the question of whether the army should be nationalized.

Specifically, in the case of later generations, in Wang Zhenyu's original shijie, the American army is almost the most powerful existence. When the ** people of the whole shijie heard the news of the appearance of the American army in their own territory, they would foam at the mouth nervously and twitch all over. Because they know that the consequence of their regime's long-term **zhuanzhi is that they can't unite the people with lies, and they lose the support of the people, and they can't do the U.S. military by relying on that little bit of the army, even if the U.S. military has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, it's useless, these mercenaries are holding the most advanced weapons on Shijie, and I don't know if it's given to them by aliens.

Far away, although the U.S. military is so terrifying, there was still a kind of army on Shijie at that time that made Americans feel a headache. Such armies may be inferior in equipment to the US military, but they have one advantage that the Americans can never surpass, and that is political ideology. In this kind of army, there are a large number of political cadres, whose task is not to fight wars, but to brainwash, uh, no, it should be education and agitation. Their work efficiency is much higher than that of the priests accompanying the US army, and with their hard work, every ordinary soldier has become extraordinary, and they will firmly believe that they are fighting for the liberation of all mankind, they will firmly believe that they are incomparably righteous and glorious, and they will firmly believe that Zuihou's victory must belong to themselves and the party. In many cases, they will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to the party, they will fight to the end of their lives when they know that they will die, they will fight you with their lives, and you still want to go back to reunite with your wife and children after the battle. These political work cadres are the most powerful individual weapon on the red alert -- Yuga.

Historically, the Soviet Red Army relied on the political commissar system and used the blood of Russian youth to defeat White Russia, defeat the intervention army of the great powers, defeat the reactionary Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Japan's Northern Advance Army. And also eliminated the Trotskyites, who had infiltrated the ranks of the revolution, and this Trotskyite was so terrible that more than two-thirds of the officers of the Red Army were, and it was not known how the Red Army had defeated the White Bandits in the presence of so many traitors. What is even more terrifying is that after eliminating a large number of Trotskyists, the Soviet Red Army still relied on political commissars, who were very military amateurs, to defeat the Germans who made the whole Shijie tremble. Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu suddenly understood, Ge Laozi, no wonder Lao Tzu encountered an earthquake that would not have been encountered in a thousand years in later generations, and a flood that had not been encountered in a hundred years was caught twice, that is, he had never seen a single ballot every five years from his grandmother, it turned out to be the advantage of the system.

I have to say that Wang Zhenyu has the shadow of an idealist after all, and although he knows that the party has so many advantages in leading the army, he still refuses to completely turn the youth army into a party army. However, in fact, the Youth Army now has all the conditions for the militarization of the party, and Wang Zhenyu still refuses to move a bit against the trend of history. In Wang Zhenyu's reply to Chen Shao and others, who proposed the militarization of the party, it is: "We have no way to predict the future (pretending, others really can't, you are afraid), but if the youth army is completely turned into a party army, then we can be sure that whether we practice the national assembly system or not, and allow other political parties to participate in politics, the National Socialist Party will become the only permanent ruling party because it has the largest armed liliang in its hands, until it completely rots and destroys itself because of the absolute corruption caused by absolute power." And this is by no means a blessing for the nation, the people, or even the party. ”

Chen Shao was very dissatisfied with this: "Then I want to know, who should our army fight for?" If we don't turn them into party troops, then how can we control their minds, how can we ensure their loyalty and combat effectiveness? ”

Wang Zhenyu didn't care about Chen Shao's confrontation, but he noticed a dangerous idea of Chen Shao's representative. As the revolutionary cause flourished, the brothers who followed him at the beginning began to have different ideas, including Chen Shao and Bai Chongxi, who were constantly trying to centralize power. This gang is clearly shouting that they are praising themselves as China's supreme leaders, but in fact they are still calculating for the interests of themselves and their own small groups, and Wang Zhenyu is very dissatisfied with this, so he will not agree to them, which means putting himself on the fire and roasting him.

However, Wang Zhenyu also realized that the problem that Chen Shao said did exist objectively and urgently needed to be solved. After all, if the army is a group that does not take precautions and strengthen management, even if it is as strong as the Eight Banners, it will gradually rot down after a long period of peace. This point cannot be avoided even by the U.S. military, and the recruitment of U.S. troops in later generations has become a big problem, and they have to use green cards to recruit foreigners who aspire to become Americans from China, Puerto Rico and other countries to enter the U.S. military, you must know that the total number of U.S. troops is only 850,000, which is not as much as North Korea, but their total population is nearly 400 million. Therefore, the U.S. military will also bully those who have lost their conscience and are unpopular, because the cost of this kind of war is low and the benefits are high.

After thinking about it, Wang Zhenyu decided to establish a political commissar system, but it was different from the political commissar responsibility system of the Soviet Red Army in history. Wang Zhenyu positioned the military's political work as political guidance and propaganda, and if you look at the name of the department he set up, you can see that in the political guidance department, he did not even use his own cronies to select the minister, but used Dai Jitao, a follower of Sun Wen. Dai Jitao was appointed head of the Political Guidance Department, which is directly subordinate to the Military Commission and is mainly responsible for the military's cultural education and ideological propaganda work. It is worth mentioning that Chiang Kai-shek, who has always been at odds with Wang Zhenyu, actually went out of the mountain under the persuasion of Dai Jitao and served as the deputy director of the Political Guidance Department and the director of the Political Guidance Department of the Youth Army Expeditionary Force.

According to the Order of Chairman No. 17 of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government issued by Wang Zhenyu, officers of the Youth Army at the brigadier general level and above (including brigadier generals) can enjoy the benefits of retirement at the age of 60 to 70 at the end of their term of office. Therefore, in the youth army, as long as you reach the brigadier general, you can be respectfully called a general, and the monthly salary is 1800 Chinese yuan (the treatment of ordinary workers in the factory at this time), which is a very face-saving and expensive job.

And in accordance with the newly signed Order No. 21, the grassroots units in the Department of Political Guidance have been up to the company. The company has political instructors, battalions have political instructors, regiments have political commissars, and divisions have political guidance department directors.

In this way, a three-legged situation was formed in the Youth Army, first of all, the military commander, the division commander and the like were directly appointed by the military council (in the future, they would be appointed by the War Department, which has not yet been established), and they had military command; The second is the chief of staff, who is directly appointed by the General Staff, who is in charge of personnel and logistics; Zuihou is the political guidance department, and they are in charge of supervision and political and ideological work. Although the power of the three departments is not equal, they can barely form a relatively balanced situation in the army, and this is what Wang Zhenyu wants.

Although the work of the Political Guidance Department could not achieve the same effect as the political commissar responsibility system of the Soviet Red Army because of Wang Zhenyu's restrictions, it could also provide mainstream political ideas for the army to a certain extent. In this way, it will provide the support of faith for the majority of officers and soldiers, and make the whole army full of soul.

The office area of the Military Commission in Wuhan is the focus of the entire urban construction, and this office area was also designed by Wang Zhenyu himself, and the scale is very grand. Specifically, this office complex consists of four buildings.

The outermost two floors are circular, enclosing the entire office area in a large circle and a small circle, the height of the two floors is 24 meters on the fourth floor and 36 meters on the sixth floor, the width of the building itself is 25 meters, the distance between the buildings is 40 meters, all are parking lots, and there are 12 overpasses between the two floors, which later became a good place for officers to chat.

Walking inside, it is a quadrangular courtyard-like office building, with a height of 6 floors and 36 meters, and a diameter of 30 meters. The distance from the outer room is a bit large, about 50 meters, and there are only four overbridges connected to the outer floor. In fact, the original purpose of the design of these concrete bridges was not to facilitate the delivery of documents by staff officers, but because Wang Zhenyu still attached great importance to his escape, and he was unwilling to build the Military Commission into his own prison. The square building in the middle makes the entire office area look from the air just in line with the traditional meaning of the round sky, which also makes the people who hate Wang Zhenyu give the Military Commission the nickname of a big copper coin.

In the middle of the square building is a 99-meter-long, 99-meter-wide open space, which is designed as a garden, and there is a three-storey Chinese-style office building in the middle, which is the core of the entire Military Commission, where the Standing Committee building is located, and the chairman and vice chairman of the committee are working here.

The entire office area of the Military Commission is circular, with four six-meter-wide gates entering and exiting, with a diameter of 450 meters and a total area of 1,000 acres. The General Staff, the War Department, the Navy Department, the Air Force Department, the Military Police Command, the Joint Logistics Department of the Three Services, the National Armed Forces Mobilization Department, the Military Education Department, the Operations Department, the Security Command, the Railway Corps Command, the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Military Discipline Picket Department and other units will work here. In fact, the peak number of office personnel in the office area of the Military Commission occurred during World War II, reaching a staggering 15,000.