Beiyang reactionaries

Yang Yongtai answered and said: "After the outbreak of the European War in the third year of the Republic of China (1914), Russia fell into a war. Russia not only suffered heavy losses during the European War. After withdrawing from the European War, the civil war became more brutal, and the casualties were very serious. It was not until two years ago that the domestic war was completely quelled. However, the [-]-year-long war severely damaged the Soviet Union’s agriculture and industry, and destroyed the Soviet economy. The Soviet Union does not even have food security, and it has no strength to manage The situation in the Far East. Therefore, I think now is a good opportunity to strengthen our strength in the border areas while the Soviet Union has no energy to manage the Far East.”

Yang Yongtai also has an opinion.

The current Soviet Union is not to be feared, at least not in a short time.Not to mention now, even during the later "Middle East Road Incident", the Soviet Union was not strong enough in the Far East.At that time, facing Zhang Xueliang's pressing step by step, the Northeast Army had 20 people, and the Soviet Union retreated repeatedly at the negotiating table.If Zhang Xueliang was a little smarter at the time, he could have used his own strength to get back enough benefits on the negotiating table to force the Soviet Union back step by step.It's just that Zhang Xueliang was instigated by others and decided to fight the Soviet Union to the death.The result is that the Northeast Army is not an opponent of the Soviet Union at all.Compared with Zhang Xueliang at that time, Duan Xun is now much stronger in the border areas.

"I agree with Premier Duan and Premier Yang."

Seeing Dai Kan and Yang Yongtai express their views, Duan Xun also opened his mouth.Duan Xun established the Construction Corps not only to solve the food problem, but also to increase border security.

Of course, it is also for the future to get back the interests of the Far East.

"However, Minister Yan's concerns are correct. At this stage, we should not turn against the Soviet Union. After all, the Soviet Union is a big country and has a long border with us, so the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are needed in this regard. Minister Yan, if the Soviet Union If you have concerns about this, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs must do a good job of explaining it. Tell them that the Construction Corps is not an army. The Construction Corps we established is not aimed at the Soviet Union."

"Yes."

"Commander Lee."

"Prime Minister."

"The internal construction of the Construction Corps is an army model, but it must be low-key outside."

"Yes."

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On December 1925, 12, the cabinet officially announced the establishment of the Construction Corps Command.In terms of affiliation, the Construction Corps Command has become a ministry of the cabinet, and it is independent like other ministries and commissions of the cabinet.As a half-military, half-civilian institution, it is neither affiliated with the Ministry of Military Affairs nor affiliated with other ministries and commissions, and is one of the constituent institutions of the cabinet.

The cabinet appointed Li Jishen, former vice minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs and concurrently commander-in-chief of the army, as the commander-in-chief of the newly established Construction Corps Command.The commander-in-chief of the Construction Corps is the same as the ministers of other ministries and commissions in the cabinet.

Deng Yanda, who served as the chief of the military staff of Duan Xun, the former Prime Minister Duan Xun's bodyguard, served as the commander of the Northeast Construction Corps.The Northeast Construction Corps has jurisdiction over the Heilongjiang Agricultural Construction Corps, the Northeast Basic Construction Corps, and the Northeast College of the Construction Corps.

For the initial construction costs of the Construction Corps, banks and departments such as China Bank of Communications, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Communications will lend money to the Construction Corps.After the establishment of the Construction Corps, the production and sales of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery, and forestry were all operated independently, and there was no need to participate in the unified purchase monopoly.The Construction Corps can be financially independent, and can independently build specialty stores and sell their own products.The Construction Corps has to pay taxes every year, as well as the stipulated profit ratio, and besides hoarding the food stipulated by the cabinet, the remaining profits can be determined independently.And the money needs to be returned to the banks and departments in the future.

In addition to the establishment of the Construction Corps, at the end of the year, some personnel transfers are also in progress.Because the Northeast Construction Corps is mainly based in Heilongjiang, personnel transfers were also made to Heilongjiang this time.

Tang Shizun, the former vice mayor of Shanghai and concurrently the head of the Shanghai Police Department, was appointed governor of Heilongjiang.The task of Tang Shizun as the governor of Heilongjiang was to thoroughly eradicate banditry in Heilongjiang, adjust the relationship between local institutions in Heilongjiang and the Northeast Construction Corps, and attract more people to Heilongjiang.

The development of Northeast China is already an established policy of the cabinet. As the most important base of the Construction Corps, Heilongjiang has of course become the top priority.So Heilongjiang, which was originally a "bird doesn't shit", has also become an important province.The cabinet began to mobilize elite soldiers and generals into Heilongjiang.

Because Heilongjiang is still a place with serious banditry in China.Because there are thousands of miles of people here, bandits are the easiest to breed, especially horse bandits.If Heilongjiang wants to develop, it is necessary to solve the banditry.

Then there's the Census Bureau.

Yu Zhongying, the former deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Police Bureau, was transferred from Shanghai to serve as the assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, assisting Zhang Jiaao, the director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, to conduct the national population census.Li Youxun, the former director of the Fengtian Provincial Police Department, was transferred to Shanghai to serve as the deputy mayor of Shanghai and the chief of the Shanghai Police Department.

While establishing the headquarters of the Construction Corps and conducting personnel transfers, at the meeting on December 1925, 12, the cabinet again decided to add two departments.

Again.

Increase the number of cabinet ministries as much as possible, and distribute the powers of the ministries.A single cabinet ministry is not allowed to appear in the cabinet, and more people can be arranged at the same time.

Moreover, at this stage, with the current communication and organizational capabilities, subdividing the powers of the ministries and commissions can make the ministries and commissions more professional.Therefore, during this meeting, the cabinet decided to add two ministries.With the continuous increase of various ministries and commissions in recent years, the number of cabinet ministries and commissions is nearly three times that of the early Republic of China.The two ministries and commissions added this time are the Forestry Department and the Propaganda Department.

With the development of the economy, the country's demand for wood is increasing day by day.How to cut trees, how to process wood, and how to effectively use firewood are all very professional things.If there is no professional planning, there will be a lot of waste of firewood.

But just cutting down trees is not enough.

Historically, when New China was founded, the national forest coverage rate was around 60%.The reason is that during the Republic of China, wars continued without any planning.This led to the deforestation of forests by everyone, including how many trees Japan cut down from China, and everyone opened up wasteland indiscriminately.As a result, China's forest coverage rate is declining rapidly.After more than 20.00 years of hard work in New China, the forest coverage rate was restored to about [-]%.

This is very serious damage to China's ecological environment.

Duan Xun can't repeat such a thing.It is the right way to plant trees and cut them at the same time.And wanting to plant trees while cutting them requires very professional knowledge.That's why the cabinet decided to increase the Ministry of Forestry and set up forest farms in various places.That is to plant trees and protect the ecology.At the same time, it is necessary to ensure the timber needed for economic development.And the Ministry of Education has decided to set up two forestry universities.Specialize in training forestry talents.

Then there is the establishment of the Propaganda Department.

There was a Propaganda Department in the cabinet before, but this time, this department will be separated and a Propaganda Department will be established.In the office, Duan Xun was talking to Lang Boyu, who was about to be the head of the Propaganda Department.When the Ministry of Civil Affairs was established three years ago, some people recommended Lang Boyu as the Minister of Civil Affairs.Because the current Ministry of Civil Affairs was established by Lang Boyu at the beginning of the Ningxia earthquake.It's just that Duan Xun appointed Tan Yankai as the Minister of Civil Affairs on the grounds that Lang Boyu was too young and his qualifications were too light.And let Lang Boyu go south to Shanghai to serve as the Secretary General of Shanghai.

This time the Propaganda Department was established, and Duan Xun named Lang Boyu.Because although the Propaganda Department is a newly established department, Duan Xun needs to firmly grasp it in his own hands.

"Prime Minister, the nationwide review of newspaper qualifications and the reduction in the number of approvals will not be good."

Lang Boyu spoke in a bit of embarrassment.

The reason why Duan Xun talked with Lang Boyu in person was to arrange for Lang Boyu the work of the Propaganda Department in the next stage.The first step of the Propaganda Department's job is to review newspapers and periodicals across the country.

This made Lang Boyu very embarrassed.

Although the Manchu Qing government and the later Beiyang government, including those local warlords, it is very common for them to use the military and police to arrest newspaper publishers, close newspaper offices, and arrest journalists.But like Duan Xun, it was the first time that he planned to conduct a comprehensive qualification review of newspapers across the country.Moreover, Duan Xun did not allow newspapers to be established casually, and began to tighten the approval system, which was the first time in decades.

newspaper.

Those who run newspapers are all influential scholars.Reviewing their newspaper qualifications and tightening the approval process will definitely offend these people greatly.

It can be very stressful.

Because this is a blatant suppression of public opinion.Not one or two of those who ran the newspaper died in prison because they offended the people above them.Since the end of Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, and Cao Kun have all done this kind of thing.It is said that the Beiyang government was so enlightened. In fact, Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, and Cao Kun all arrested newspaper staff, closed newspapers, arrested reporters, and even killed people.Zhang Jingyao even shot to death the people who ran a newspaper in Hunan.But it was not able to make them surrender.

They scolded as much as they should, they never stopped.

These people have hard bones.

"I'm not trying to suppress public opinion, I'm trying to rectify the current chaotic situation in newspaper offices. If you look at these newspapers, they are completely relying on this kind of sensational content and pornographic content to attract readers. Such vulgar newspapers should Banned, because they do not have the integrity of a newspaperman. Therefore, newspapers should also have qualifications, they must be strictly censored, and their content needs to be supervised. Newspapers like "Daobao" and "Ta Kung Pao" are completely No problem, even if they criticize our policies, they are justified, and I support their voice. But these small newspapers are completely rubbish. What is the use of such newspapers? The Propaganda Department's review of the qualifications of the newspaper and the review of the content of the newspaper is to let you ban these smoky newspapers."

Even Duan Xun doesn't know how many newspapers there are in China.Because there are so many newspapers in China, I don’t know if there are hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands.

And it is too easy to run a newspaper now.Anyone who wants to run a newspaper can run a newspaper.Therefore, there are countless tabloids in China at present.

But Duan Xun was not satisfied with this situation.

There are too many newspapers, and there are all kinds of means to compete.Those small newspapers are not as good as the big newspapers, and they are not for running newspapers at all.Their survival depends on sensational content.There are even many tabloids that rely on pornographic novels to attract people.

What's more, in order to increase sales, those tabloids weaved all the famous women into their stories.Especially those revolutionary female generals, those feminist generals are the protagonists of their stories.Moreover, their so-called stories are all yellow paragraphs, and the content is simply unsightly.

But still the same.

This kind of story, on the contrary, many people like to read it.

Duan Xun has been relatively busy in recent years, and has a lot of big things to deal with.So I don't have the energy to take care of these messy things.But as Duan Xun's status stabilized and the situation stabilized, Duan Xun planned to rectify these newspapers.

Of course, rectifying these is an excuse, and another purpose is to rectify the current public opinion.The current Chinese public opinion environment is too loose, those people really interfere in everything, and talk nonsense about everything.To put it bluntly, Duan Xun is a "semi-dictator" and doesn't like too loose public opinion.Proper rectification of public opinion is a must.

But not in one step.

First introduce some rules, sort out those messy newspaper offices, and establish the prestige of the Propaganda Department.In the future, these newspaper offices can be sorted out slowly.

"Newspapers can't be run casually in the future. It's just like the Bank of China's rectification of banking and finance. If you want to run a newspaper, you must have sufficient qualifications. And they can only run a newspaper if the Propaganda Department gives them a qualification certificate for running a newspaper. There are magazines, publishing houses, etc., and they must also have a qualification certificate. This is the first job after the establishment of the Propaganda Department.”

Lang Boyu listened carefully.