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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 193 Nothing is impossible, the ice is melting

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    The Chinese Participating Model Army is a brand-new team. Wang Geng used iron discipline - the three major disciplines - the nine points of discipline to standardize military discipline, and armed the minds of the officers and soldiers of the participating army with benefits and honors that are twice the average income level of society.  The ideal that Wang Geng instilled in the officers and soldiers participating in the war was to unify China and build a democratic, prosperous and powerful republic.

    Nationalizing the army is Wang Geng¡¯s goal. Although the current army is still a young team, Wang Geng does not want the soldiers to be loyal to any general. They only need to be loyal to the country and the people. As for how to do so,  The ability to judge right from wrong needs to be nurtured and cultivated in the military environment. However, the three major disciplines and the nine points of attention and the military songs of the 16th Mixed Brigade are obviously the easiest guidance to be engraved in the heart!

    Although the Participating Army has 13 reorganized divisions with jurisdiction over 39 mixed brigades, Wang Geng implements the unified command and leadership of the Participating Army Headquarters and Staff Headquarters. All brigade commanders have individual radio call signs and passwords that can be set up directly with Wang Geng.  Get in touch with the headquarters in Nanyuan. From garrison to deployment, the division commanders have no right to issue orders alone and must obtain approval from the staff headquarters. This is iron discipline!

    The reason why the governors of each province can command their own divisions is because they also serve as the division commanders of the reorganized divisions of the participating armies. The brigade commanders accept the orders of the division headquarters and division commanders, not the military governors. In the words of Wang Geng, the war supervisor  , only participating armies can command participating armies, and only orders approved by the General Staff Headquarters can be executed.

    Of course, after the campaign is launched and during the battle, the division commander or the front army commander can have arbitrary command power in the campaign plan and framework. However, it is necessary to have a plan in advance. If it is too late, it will be reported and summarized as soon as possible afterwards. This also makes  The headquarters of the participating armies kept abreast of the dynamics of the entire army. Although it was not common for Wang Geng's headquarters to leapfrog the command to the brigade, it was a precedent that had actually happened.

    Which division commander wants to rebel or falsely transmit military orders will be reflected on the command map of the Nanyuan Army Staff Headquarters within one day. The actions of each brigade will be implemented after being reported to the staff headquarters.

    It must be said that the division commanders and brigade commanders of the 13 reorganized divisions of the participating armies, including the governors of so many provinces, were often infiltrated and attracted by various domestic factions, but for these officers who had once been frustrated or were still very young,  Generally speaking, Wang Geng and the participating army presented a broad stage for them, especially after the unlucky Zhao Ti uprising in Henan and the participating army's victory in regaining Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road.

    The huge honors and meritorious deeds have brought into full play the sense of military honor and dignity that Wang Geng has cultivated for a long time. This team is in the early stages of vigorous growth. Morale and loyalty are always high under the support of the sense of military honor, even if  Among the officers who had some small calculations in their minds, no one felt the need to betray the leader and the country at this time!

    In their view, the participating armies and the government are one and the same, and they are both representatives of the country and the people!

    On January 8, 1918, Wang Geng, the War Supervisor, was awarded the title of General of the Army, General Long Wei, and was promoted to the Inspection Envoy of Rechasui. In fact, he originally served as the military governor of these three provinces concurrently.

    In order to take precautions to improve people's livelihood and stabilize social order, and to fight against the "Land Law" that was already being used by Soviet Russia, before the new land law was promulgated, in early January 1918, the government decided to launch it in Wang Geng's Rechasui provinces.  The "Regulations on Farmland Rent Reduction 375" effectively reduces the burden on tenant farmers.

    This regulation stipulates an upper limit for landowners¡¯ income, that is, the rent of cultivated land shall not exceed 375% of the total annual harvest of main crops.  In addition, it also curbed various inequalities arising from bad rules between landlords and tenant farmers, such as short-lived leases, the landlord's ability to seize the tenants at will, rent deposits, advance rent, iron rent that also had to be paid in case of crop failure, and side rent.  Product rental, etc.

    The governments of the three provinces of Recha-Sui established the 375 Tenancy Committee to arbitrate disputes between tenants.

    The promulgation of this regulation significantly improved the lives of tenant farmers, with the purpose of reducing the burden on farmers. Of course, the landlords were naturally opposed to it, but the landlords of this era were not all bullies as advertised in their previous lives. Many of them were squires, and they were very hostile to Russia.  I have also heard about the situation there, and I deeply hate Lao Maozi's law that deprived landlords of their land and distributed it to peasants for free, so they are dissatisfied. If they really want to rebel, they don't have the courage.

    The majority of tenant farmers are rejoicing. In response to the losses to landlords caused by the "Regulations on Farmland Rent Reduction for Three to Seven Five Years", the governments of the three provinces of Rechasui and Rechasui have uniformly issued reductions and exemptions for all agricultural-related surcharges except formal land taxes, and have  The land tax was halved that year.

    At the same time, the central government exempted Outer Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and Jilin provinces from all provincial surcharges and various types of donations other than formal land taxes!  The expenditure budgets of provincial and county governments are all allocated by the central government, but there are two lines of revenue and expenditure. The land taxes of the above six provinces must be turned over to the central government.central finance.

    Trial policies to stabilize and improve people's livelihood are gradually being implemented. For knowledgeable people, if the Russian land law appears in China, it will definitely become a scourge!  Therefore, the policies introduced in batches by the government in the six northern provinces have received a roaring response and overwhelming applause from the public opinion and intellectual elites across the country!

    The reason why the four major provinces of Zhili, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong have not tried out such a policy is because these are large agricultural and populous provinces, and the wave of opposition from landlords may be relatively large, and these provinces are not involved in the war with the South.  Bordering military-controlled provinces, stability is paramount.  Therefore, we need to wait for a while and wait for the six northern provinces to gain successful experience before implementing it one after another.

    Since the northern provinces are under the actual control of the participating armies, the governors and division commanders of these provinces are provided with food and wages fully supplied by the central government.  The edification and restraint of officers and soldiers, and the ruthless military police's law enforcement in the military have made it obvious that corrupt black sheep have no courage to just jump out and risk the world's disapproval. Provincial, city and county governments are now more clean than before.  Significant improvement.

    At the beginning of 1918, it was clear that the northern provinces under the control of the participating armies were gradually becoming a place full of vitality and vitality.

    According to Wang Geng's estimation in front of the Prime Minister and Xu Shuzheng, as the land tax and land rent in the north are reduced, farmers from the southern provinces will be effectively attracted to move their families northward to those provinces that have implemented rent reduction and talent reduction. To this end,  The Ministry of Transport has specially ordered that all stations affiliated to the railway bureau will provide special fare tickets for farmers and immigrants heading north, with the price being 20% ??of the price of ordinary third-class carriages.

    At the same time, the Congress officially elected 30 members from each house of the House of Representatives and the Senate, plus cabinet ministers, to form a drafting committee for constitutional amendments. They are preparing to formally amend the constitution after the election of members of the House of Representatives is completed in August.

    As China achieved a series of achievements under the leadership of the Duan Qirui cabinet in 1917, coupled with the honeymoon period of the Zhili-Anhui alliance, the participating armies took effective control of the ten northern provinces, plus the provinces in the Yangtze River Basin that were originally controlled by the Anhui and Zhili cliques.  , the whole of China shows an incredible unity, balance and harmony.

    Under Wang Geng's promotion, Sun Dapao, leader of the Southern Party who lived in seclusion in the south, was appointed by the Prime Minister as the Supervisor of the Southern Railway of the Ministry of Transport, responsible for the planning and construction management of the national railway south of the Yangtze River. The situation was stronger than the person, and Sun Dapao really  Recalling his plan to build 100,000 kilometers of railways to serve the country a few years ago when he stepped down as interim president to supervise the national railways, he personally led a railway exploration team to start inspections and explorations in the southern provinces.

    This can also be regarded as a test of the domestic political situation by the North and the South after the great alliance between Zhijiang and Anhui. Obviously, there was no restoration and law-protection movement in 1917, and China's international status and image, as well as its military and economic strength, were effectively enhanced. In Outer Mongolia and  With the sovereignty of the Middle East Road being taken back, the leaders of the Southern Party are also thinking about China's future!

    When the northern participating armies were stronger than Yuan Shikai's Beiyang, it was obvious that there was no way out for the military to resist by force. Not to mention that China had the support and arms of the United States, Britain, Japan and France on the issue of joining the Allies and participating in the war. The only way out was  It is necessary to maintain the majority of southern members of the House of Representatives in the House of Representatives elections to be held in August, although this seems almost impossible to do.

    The remaining opportunity is to win the support of Japan. However, with the participating armies and the Beijing government supported by the United States, Britain and France, will they still be afraid of local forces supported by Japan?  Especially when Japan may not be willing to do this!
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