"But we now maintain a very good relationship with Daming, both official and non-governmental have many communication channels, and with the continuous expansion of our trade scale, the entanglement of interests between Daming and us will only get deeper and deeper, I don't think there will be a breakdown of relations between the two sides in the near future and even the possibility of war. As long as a year or two later, we will cultivate enough vested interests within the Ming Dynasty, and there will be more and more people like Luo Shengdong, who will spare no effort to maintain the relationship with us and deal with those hidden dangers that may cause trouble for us. Schneider naturally would not be persuaded by Yan Chujie's words, in his opinion, Yan Chujie's attitude was more like an alarmist statement deliberately expressed in order to achieve the goal.

"Da Ming is one of our external threats, but it is not the only threat!" As one of the directors of the military and police department, Tao Donglai really couldn't watch his comrades-in-arms continue to fight alone, so he could only choose to participate in this debate: "Don't forget that our future opponents are the Spaniards, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British, and countless pirates in the vast sea area from Wusongkou to Malacca!" None of these forces will pose a smaller threat than the Ming Dynasty, and they will never treat us as descendants of the same clan as the Ming Dynasty, and our rhetoric of being born in the sea will not have any special effect on these maritime forces. Don't think that only pirates are going to do plunder, if we don't have enough strength to defend ourselves, these Western powers will also swallow us like a piece of fat!"

"Don't think that these naturalized people are qualified soldiers after a month or two of intensive training, and their current combat skills are basically zero! To put it bluntly, these soldiers and security guards don't even know what war is, and their understanding of this aspect is not even as good as those keyboard militarists among us! Without years of training, they will not be able to fight on the battlefield at all, and compared with the guards of the Ming Dynasty, they are just lined up more neatly!"

"Also, don't ignore the time it takes for an army to become an army, the army may only need one or two years to become an army, but for the navy, which we rely on so much in the future, one or two years may only be enough to train a group of sailors, and it is still far from the requirement of becoming an army! Where will our future navy come from? Isn't it necessary to train from the new barracks in batches! Is it a lot of expenses of one or two thousand a month? Compared with the navy, the beginning of the army is quite small, and now it is beginning to complain about poverty, and the navy will not be able to do it in the future?"

Tao Donglai rarely spoke so seriously in an internal meeting, and there was a brief silence in the conference room after he finished speaking. In the end, it was Schneider who broke the silence with a voice: "Mr. Tao, I don't mean to oppose the formation of a military force by the Military Police Department, but to oppose the large-scale expansion of the army at this stage, we should at least wait until ......"

"We can wait, but our opponent won't be so kind to wait!" Yan Chujie interrupted Schneider without waiting for him to finish: "Mr. Tao also made it very clear just now, it will take some time for these naturalized soldiers and security guards we have trained to really form combat effectiveness, in fact, they can't even meet the requirements of future recruits, so they have to be deployed because of the shape shì." Although we want to take the line of elite soldiers in the future, these soldiers at hand are not elite soldiers, and in the eyes of the Military Police Department, we have not even reached the level of a qualified soldier, and all we can do now is to expand the scale of the establishment and make a fuss about the quantity. ”

"Well, I don't think I can convince you better, but I would like to remind you that the budget of the Military Police Department for the next quarter should be readjusted, and I propose that from the next quarter, the military budget will not be cashed in the Ministry of Finance until it has been reviewed by the Executive Committee. After all, our executive committee model is a democratic system, not a military regime, right?" Schneider reluctantly gave up the confrontation in the face of the resolute attitude of the two bigwigs, but he still hoped that the rules of the game could add a restriction to the military and police department.

This time, Tao Donglai didn't insist anymore, nodded and said: "This is what should be done, in fact, I think it is necessary at the end of the year, all departments should draw up a budget table for next year's development plan." Since we have begun to implement the internal currency settlement system, the budget and final account methods should be promoted, and the importance of this should be well known to Mr. Shi, right?"

"Of course. Seeing that Tao Donglai's attitude had eased, Schneider also cheered up and explained: "The annual budget of the government is the core of the financial work that crosses the regime, and it is also one of the biggest differences between a new regime like ours and the feudal regime. With the government budget, we can scientifically formulate development plans and effectively supervise the financial aspects of various functional departments. On this issue, I unconditionally support Mr. Tao's suggestion that the annual budget system should indeed be implemented as much as possible. ”

Although there was a slight digression, the Executive Committee finally reached a consensus on this and approved the expansion plan of the Military Police Department. However, during the review of the list of expatriates of the Military Police Department, new questions were raised.

"Why is there still a little Japanese name in this?" Meng He pointed to the list of personnel and said loudly: "Isn't Takahashi Minami the foreman of the labor camp? Why is he also on the expatriate list of the Military Police Department?"

"I'll explain that. Yan Chujie said: "This little Japan has always been more prominent during the labor camp, and his organizational skills are also good, and the most important thing is that he has a high degree of recognition of our passage through the regime and is willing to do things for us." Ren Liang sent several reports to the Military Police Department, all of which mentioned that he hoped to transfer Gao Qiaonan's identity to the naturalized people and give him a chance to improve. ”

Before that, Ren Liang managed the labor camp in an orderly manner, and also put forward such a far-reaching employment plan as the "labor hierarchy", and the executive committee recognized his ability. Since this candidate was proposed by Ren Liang, Meng He would not question Ren Liang's vision, but Yan Chujie's answer did not solve all the doubts in his heart: "Then what is the specific role of sending this little Japan over there?"

Yan Chujie responded: "Continue to do the supervision work that he is good at." The Vietnamese population imported from Xingang is likely to reach one or two thousand in a short period of time, and most of the people we sent to the local area are technicians and armed personnel, and there are very few real managers on the construction site. ”

"Is it a talent for little Japan to be good at management?" Meng He joked casually.

"It's not so much a talent as a habit that is acquired. Ning Qi explained for Yan Chujie: "The bushido they practice is a system of absolute obedience, and for the junior samurai, it is their duty to unconditionally carry out the orders of their superiors, so in our opinion, Takahashi's obedience has always been very good, and he will also use himself as a standard to demand and train his subordinates." ”

"Takahashi Minami has always been white-faced in the labor camp, and we use the Japanese to manage the Vietnamese, and let Takahashi Minami play the image of the villain, so that we can actually avoid direct conflict with Vietnamese immigrants in a certain way. Yan Chujie added.

Speaking of this topic, Tao Donglai couldn't help but also express his opinion: "Regarding the racial issue of naturalized people, I think everyone should not be overly concerned, multi-ethnic and even multi-racial coexistence under our management, such a situation will be faced sooner or later. In the future, in our factories and troops, it is very likely that there will be Japanese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Mongolians, white Europeans and even black Africans, and we should not be limited to the cognition of later generations, and regard language, ethnicity, race, and skin color as the boundaries between countries and countries, and from inside and outside, and our criteria for collecting naturalized people should be based on the basic recognition of the social system we are applying and a high degree of loyalty to our political power!"

"Regarding Minami Takahashi's work arrangement, I think it is a good opportunity for us to try to solve the ******** in the future. As everyone here should know, in the future generations our country has suffered too much because of the erroneous ethnic policy, and in the final analysis, I believe that the differential treatment of various nationalities in the system is the biggest source of the trouble! We do not engage in any 'two less and one lenient,' but we also cannot discriminate against other nationalities and races, and only in this way can naturalized people of different nationalities and races identify with their new identities to the greatest extent!"

"Mr. Tao, this kind of ethnic policy you said is not bad, but I think it is difficult for a Han nationalist like me to agree with your point of view, so wouldn't this weaken the status of our Han people in disguise?" Meng He, who has always had the ideological tendency of the former emperor and Han Dynasty, immediately questioned Tao Donglai's statement.

"Do you want to get involved in the Huayi debate? Your view is not Han nationalism, but narrow nationalism. Tao Donglai immediately retorted: "Even according to the ancestors, the "Spring and Autumn" and "Three Rites" are used to distinguish between Huaxia and barbarians, but they are only distinguished from the cultural point of view, to put it bluntly, it is to abide by our social system and cultural inheritance, that is, the Chinese people, the ancestors have never said that they should distinguish Huayi according to skin color, race or something." What we need to do is to assimilate the naturalized people culturally and institutionally, instead of distinguishing the naturalized people according to ethnicity, race, and so on from the very beginning, and separating the Han and non-Han ethnic groups.