Beiyang reactionaries

"Third: Our country's military industry units should become independent and establish several independent weapons group companies, which are under the direct leadership of the cabinet SASAC. After the group companies are established, they must be responsible for their own profits and losses. In the future, the military will order weapons and contact these companies on their own. , instead of the military council leading everything.”

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1945 was a year of great change.

Because the Second World War ended this year, and China was going to change from a wartime mechanism to a normal economic mechanism, so all departments were busy.A large number of temporary agencies have been abolished, personnel have to return to their original units, and power has to be re-divided.

This is not easy.

Conflicts of interest are the most difficult to mediate.

There are conflicts of interest among various departments.Those temporary institutions have powers, and now these temporary institutions are to be abolished, and the power of these temporary institutions has returned to various departments, which directly caused disputes among various departments.In order to compete for the power of the department, everyone fought very lively.All departments hope that their departments will take over the power after the abolishment of the temporary agency.

Under such circumstances, the higher authorities cannot decide with one word, saying what should be done.If this is the case, it will hurt the enthusiasm of some departments below and affect the progress of the next step.Therefore, it is the most difficult to deal with this kind of dispute. It needs several times of coordination to solve these problems.

Of course, it is difficult to deal with disputes between departments, and it is also difficult to arrange the personnel of those temporary agencies.In some important temporary organizations, all the elites from the original departments were transferred.Now that the temporary organization is abolished, these people must return to their original units.In the temporary agency, they all have achieved results, and they have to be promoted to a higher level according to time and credit.But the original department is also a radish and a pit, how do you arrange it when you return to the original department?

If the arrangement is not good, those people will not be happy.After all, they had worked so hard, how could they be satisfied after returning to the original department and sitting on the bench.Similarly, the original department will also have a headache, because many of these people are high-level, and they have to arrange high-level positions when they come back.But where are there so many places left for them.These are all big questions.

So the whole of China is busy with this matter.

Of course this is just one of them.

Apart from this matter, the biggest issue at present is the issue of military disarmament and the reduction of military expenditure.This is a big deal, and the army is like a big enemy.After all, to reduce the number of troops by half, that is 400 million people.This is not 4 people, 40 people, but a full 400 million people.With so many people down, it's so easy to put them where.

These people are soldiers after all.

Many of them have fought in wars. If these people are not properly placed and allowed to appear in society, this will be a factor of instability.So their resettlement work must be done well.

The same goes for the cabinet.

With so many military professions, how to arrange them is really a big problem.In order to accommodate them, all government departments and enterprises must come up with some indicators to specifically accommodate these professional soldiers.

Some ordinary soldiers are specialized, and it is not very difficult to arrange jobs for them.People are needed everywhere now, and government departments and large companies that are developing need a lot of staff.

But officers have many problems.

Because officers have ranks.Now that the military is a major, it is not like a few decades later, you can pay a large amount of retirement fees.In fact, the government's finances are limited now, so it doesn't pay much for veterans.Instead, give them a stable job to make up for the transfer fee.Therefore, those officers with ranks should also be given corresponding ranks after their majors.But the ordinary staff is easy to say, there are so many positions in the level. 400 million military professionals, how many troops need to be abolished, and how many officers will be professional.This is really not that easy.

But that doesn't mean everyone is unhappy.

On the contrary, some places are very happy.That is those frontier areas that China has not long since taken back, and they are very welcome to the large-scale professionalism of the army.Like Ussuri River Province, a lot of wasteland is currently being reclaimed, but there is still a shortage of people.Including the Northeast Construction Corps, it is also preparing to expand its scale.They all need people, especially the submissive kind.

There is also the newly established Anxi Special City in Xinjiang, which is the recovered outer northwest region.The situation is even more complicated when various ethnic groups are mixed in that place.Although Xinjiang has vigorously immigrated, it has changed the population structure of Xinjiang.However, Xinjiang still feels that there are not enough personnel, and it is still encouraging population migration.

Therefore, Anzai Special City likes this matter very much.If 40 to [-] professional soldiers can be allocated from this specialization, together with their families, the situation in Anxi Special City can be quickly changed.More importantly, there is a lot of uncultivated cultivated land in Anxi Special City.The land here is already fertile, and there is no shortage of water, which is very suitable for farming.

This place has long been spotted by the Xinjiang Construction Corps, and they are planning to build a large area of ​​cultivated land here.

Moreover, Anxi Special City also needs a large number of government workers.In a region with many ethnic groups like Xinjiang, the security situation is very severe, so the police force is also huge.Retired military personnel are best suited in police departments.

In addition to these, the education situation in the frontier areas is also very backward.Although China has carried out literacy campaigns for 20 years, education in many areas is still poor.Especially in these border areas and backward provinces, where various ethnic groups gather, the educational situation is very backward.Among other things, these demobilized soldiers are very good human resources to participate in the literacy campaign.

Anyway, some places are not very happy about the cabinet's request to accept demobilized soldiers and to leave indicators for demobilized soldiers.But some areas are very welcoming.

The issue of disarmament is very troublesome, and the military has to consider all aspects.What kind of troops should be abolished and what kind of troops should be retained will involve the interests of many parties.Many of the old chiefs of the army are military bosses who started their careers with Duan Xun, and they are all still in the army.It's not that easy for you to abolish the troops they built by themselves.

Moreover, the top military leaders are now troubled not only by this, but also by military expenditures.The Supreme Council has determined that the military expenditure will be greatly reduced from the second half of 1945, and by 1946 the military expenditure will directly become 100 billion, which is a quarter of the current amount.This is the biggest problem.

Military spending is falling too fast.

How to allocate it needs to be carefully considered by the top military.But it can't be until 1946 that there will be insufficient military expenditures.

Of course, what makes the military's heart bleed the most is that China's military factories will be independent from the Military Commission and become companies under the cabinet SASAC.At present, the strength of China's military factories is very strong.There are aircraft factories, shipyards, military factories that manufacture tanks and guns, and supporting factories attached to these military factories.There are thousands of military factories of all kinds.During the war, these military factories made a lot of money. In addition to taxes and turned-in profits, there were also a lot of profits to supplement the army's military expenses.

China had maintained an army size of 600 million before, but after participating in the war, the size of the army expanded to more than 800 million.To maintain such a large-scale army, we still need to fight wars. China's annual military expenditure is actually more than 500 billion yuan.

The financial appropriation is 430 billion, and tens of billions of military expenditures are all earned by military factories.During the war, military factories were not only engaged in arms business. Many military factories had strong technical force, so some of their subordinate factories also produced other things to make money.

But now all have to be stripped out, which makes the military executives feel very distressed.The separation of these factories from the military committee will greatly reduce the power of the military committee.

But Duan Xun didn't have time to think about this.After the time entered September 1945, Duan Xun left Beijing again, preparing to attend the Chinese Federation Conference held in Chengdu.This is the first time Duan Xun participated in the meeting of the Federation of China.

"Minister Wei, who is more appropriate to give the post of Secretary-General of the Chinese Federation to?"

When he arrived in Chengdu, Duan Xun asked Wei Chen's group.

Originally, He Fengshan was the most suitable successor to Wei Chen's group and responsible for the affairs of the Chinese Federation.But He Fengshan has been sent to Europe, so Duan Xun asked Wei Chen's group.When choosing a successor, it has always been a common practice to ask the meaning of the departing leader.Moreover, the recommendation of the outgoing leader has a high gold content.

When Wei Chen's group heard Duan Xun's question, they didn't hesitate at all.Because Wei Chen's team had thought about this issue a long time ago, he said, "Chairman, if I recommend it, I think Yang Guangsheng is the most suitable."

"I know him, he was the consul general in London before, and then he was the consul general in Manila."

"That's him. After the outbreak of World War II, Yang Guangzheng was sent to New Delhi as consul general. Later, after we strengthened our cooperation with the British army, Yang Guangzheng was also responsible for contacting the Governor of India and the Allied Far East Command."

"Well. How old is he?"

"I am 45 years old this year. I was admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 16. I studied in the United States at the age of 20 and received a Doctor of Philosophy in International Public Law in the United States. I worked as a teacher at Tsinghua University for a while, and later entered the diplomatic system and worked in the US embassy. During his work, he also worked as a teacher in some universities in the United States, and also served as the chairman of the Chinese Student Union in the United States. At the age of 29, he served as the Consul General in London and has been working with me since then. When I was in Europe, he was always my favorite A highly respected young man. Later, the situation in Asia was tense, so he returned to Asia and served as the Consul General in Manila, Philippines."

"It's been a lot of experience."

Duan Xun nodded.

Said: "Then I will meet him. 45 years old, still very young, let him exercise on his own. I have high hopes for the China Federation and let him work hard here. With achievements, there will be a bigger stage waiting for him in the future he."

"Yes."

"Minister Wei, finish dealing with the affairs of the Chinese Federation, and then deal with the affairs of the Asian United Organization. I will return to Beijing next year and serve as my assistant and also serve as a foreign affairs member of the Supreme Council."

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Duan Xun rarely returned to Sichuan.

Since the Dharma War, Duan Xun's troops have taken control of Hubei.Afterwards, the government moved from Chengdu to Wuhan, left Sichuan, and then entered Beijing, and it has been almost 30 years now.In the past 30 years, the number of times Duan Xun returned to Sichuan was very limited, and this time was only the third time.

Especially after taking over Beijing, Duan Xun seldom left Beijing for more than ten years, and always stayed in Beijing.Because Duan Xun had too many things to do at that time, and he had been stabilizing the regime, it was not easy to leave Beijing casually.

Even if you leave Beijing, you are only inspecting a place not far from Beijing.

It was not until the regime was stable and the organization was operating normally that Duan Xun left Beijing many times to inspect various places.In recent years, Duan Xun has left Beijing more and more times.Duan Xun attached great importance to this Chinese Federation meeting.After all, this is the first Chinese Federation Conference after the end of World War II.

It is not enough to rely solely on the Asia United Organization to reshape the Asian order.If Duan Xun wants to increase China's influence in Asia, increase China's leadership in Asia, and even increase its influence in the world in the future, then it is necessary to manage the Chinese Federation well and increase the strength of the Chinese Federation.Only when the strength of the Chinese Federation is greatly increased, and only when the countries of the Chinese Federation act together around China, will China's position in the Asian United Organization be more stable.The more stable China's leadership in the Asia United Organization is, the closer the relationship between the Asia United Organization and China will be, and the more bargaining chips China will have in negotiating with Europe and the United States in the future.

Duan Xun never believed that China could be isolated from the world, and Asia could be isolated from the world.On the contrary, in the future, China and Asia will definitely increase their connection with the world and integrate into the world.Then it is definitely necessary to have more cooperation with European and American countries.

But to cooperate with European and American countries, China needs to negotiate with European and American countries, and everyone needs to formulate a cooperation plan and cooperation mechanism.If only one China is negotiating with European and American countries, then China may be at a disadvantage during the negotiation.But with dozens of countries of the Asian United Organization negotiating with Europe and the United States, it will be completely evenly matched, and may even surpass Europe and the United States in strength.During the negotiation, you have enough confidence to bargain with them.