9oo6983 Chapter 47o under the North Patrol Mountain Customs

The city defense headquarters attended the staff meeting of the provisional divisions of the National Defense Force, and Zhao Bei was basically satisfied with the person "Wu Guangxin." Although this person is Duan Qirui's brother-in-law, and he has made some use of nepotism when he was promoted to this position, after all, this person is a professional officer from a regular military academy, and his military quality is still qualified.

Of course, it is only qualified, and considering that Wu Guangxin received a military education in a Japanese military academy, there is also a question mark about how much really useful military knowledge he has learned, and the Japanese have always had a bad reputation in this regard.

An officer like Wu Guangxin. There is no problem for these people to command the army to participate in the civil war, but if they want to fight with the foreign ** team, they still need to further study, and the current national defense force has basically set up a shelf, and the remaining problem is how to improve the quality of officers.

The establishment of a military academy, this is what Zhao Bei has been doing for a long time, a military academy in Wuhan, a military academy in Chengdu, both of which were set up by him himself, there is no problem in training grassroots officers, but if it comes to senior officers and senior commanders who can adapt to modern military innovation, then it is necessary to establish another military school, which is a 6th military university, and the candidate for president has also been determined, that is, Jiang Fangzhen.

In addition to the 6th Army University, Zhao Bei also plans to rectify the military schools in various places and transform them into 6th Army Primary School and 6th Army Middle School respectively.

At that time, the Qing court also set up military academies and martial arts halls all over the country, such as the Baoding Military Academy, the Nanjing 6th Army Military Academy, and so on, but the teachers of these military schools were very limited, and most of them were non-commissioned officers and students studying in Japan as the top instructors

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Therefore, Zhao Bei has officially decided to enhance the actual combat ability of military cadets through the method of "rotation teaching", the last Great War of the North, a large number of officers and non-commissioned officers in the North and South armies have experienced the baptism of war, this actual combat experience is more or less accumulated, although the intensity and intensity of this war is far less than the Russo-Japanese War of that year, but at least this is not on paper. According to Zhao Bei's this, "Rotational teaching." Method: All literate officers participating in the war must go to various military academies to serve as grass-roots instructors for a period of time, and use this method to achieve two purposes: first, to enhance the actual combat ability of military cadets; Second. Through this method of rotational teaching, it is justified to disrupt the mountains in those miscellaneous troops, and after the military academy instructors finish their teaching tasks, they may not necessarily return to the original troops, so this can also be regarded as a means for Zhao Bei to "cut the mountain."

Of course, for Zhao Bei's second purpose, the 6th Military Department is still unclear, maybe Zhou Duan Qirui and others will understand it, but at that time, they have no way to interfere with the president's actions.

The power of the center needs to be further strengthened, and the authority of Zhao Bei also needs to be further strengthened, which is not only personal interests, but also involves national interests, which is also an important part of the "military reform" plan that Zhao Bei is promoting, no one can stop this reform, now China, what is needed is a strong central government, if the central government does not have absolute superiority in force, then the country's social rank can not be guaranteed, this truth Zhao Bei understands, but others may not understand.

In addition to military reform, fiscal reform is also the top priority, and without stable fiscal revenue, military reform will be a flash in the pan. Nan Ke dreamed, and this, the most important of the fiscal reform, is the currency reform and tax reform.

The reason why Zhao Bei inspected Shanhaiguan this time and brought the US financial adviser over was for this financial reform.

This "U.S. financial adviser" is not a person, but a small group, a total of five young Americans, all recommended by the U.S. Minister to China Stade, the leader of the group is named Spike, it is said that he graduated from the Yale School of Economics in the United States, worked as a financial adviser on Wall Street in his early years, went to China a few years ago, engaged in economic consulting in the Shanghai Public Concession, and acted as a gunner for trade between Chinese businessmen and foreign businessmen, and has "very rich experience and economic vision of ordinary people."

"Possess" very rich experience and the economic vision of ordinary people. This was Si Dade's original words, but Zhao Bei didn't take it seriously. In recent years, there are many foreign adventurers who have gone to China to make the first pot of gold, whether this Spike is really an economic expert, needs to be further tested, as a traverser, Zhao Bei also has his own views on the economy, if you talk about this, "strategic vision." "This Spike is afraid that he doesn't even deserve to carry his shoes.

But strategic vision is one thing. The specific implementation of this economic policy still needs to be done by the people below, and Zhao Bei cannot do everything himself, he is only responsible for giving a plan 1 "pointing out a general direction, and leaving the rest of the things to his subordinates to do, and this "American economic adviser" is not so much to provide him with economic policy advice. After all, now Steder is expected to officially take over as US minister to China, and the word "acting" before "acting minister" is expected to be removed, so in the future, he will be the US government's plenipotentiary representative in China, and having a good relationship with him will be very helpful to Zhao Bei's future strategic implementation

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Although Mr. President only regarded this "economic adviser" as a mixed meal, Mr. Spike did his best to travel from several continents to Shanhaiguan. Together with several other advisers, he drafted a plan for the reform of the Ming Dynasty, which he solemnly presented to the young president after Zhao Bei had concluded a meeting of the city defense staff.

"You mean, just take the gold standard?. Zhao Bei asked.

"Yes. We believe that the most urgent task for your country at present is to abolish the silver standard and switch to the gold standard, which will facilitate better integration into the international market. We believe that it is not very difficult to establish a gold standard, as long as there is abundant capital. Spike said optimistically.

Zhao Bei looked through the book, and sure enough, these American economic advisers did not cross this era, and their ideas are completely consistent with the current mainstream economic circles in the world, that is, to suggest that the central government of China abolish the silver standard that has been implemented in this country for hundreds of years, and change to the gold standard, under this monetary system, paper money can be directly exchanged for gold, and the reason why American banknotes are called "US dollars." It is precisely for this reason that Ying Zheng is nicknamed "Jin Pong". "It's the same thing.

this era. Most of the economic powers were on the gold standard, and even Japan, which had previously adopted the silver standard, switched to the gold standard with war reparations plundered after the First Sino-Japanese War in order to integrate with the international market.

But as a traverser, Zhao Bei knows that this gold standard will eventually withdraw from the stage of history, and gold will be separated from the value of money, which is not something that can be changed by manpower, because the reserves of gold are limited, and the commodities provided by the world market tend to be infinite, so gold will only become more and more expensive, and it will no longer be difficult to assume the function of currency, and the paper money made by the world's number one power will eventually dominate the world economy.

Therefore, in Zhao Bei's view, whether to implement the gold standard now is not the most urgent thing in economic reform, because for China, the most important economic reform matter now is to unify the currency system, first unify the currency, and then talk about other things.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the monetary system was relatively stable, with copper coins and silver locks as the main forms of currency, among which the silver locks were not unified because of the casting, so the weight and shape were not uniform, which itself was already chaotic. After the opening of the national door at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of currencies from various countries poured into China, and the mechanism silver dollar was widely popular because of the convenience of trading, which exacerbated the chaos of the currency and forced the pressure of foreign money competition. At the same time, in order to profit from the scum, the Qing court officially minted silver dollars in the early years of Guangxu, the so-called "Longyang." "However, because of the small amount of minted and the decline of central power, this silver dollar did not become legal tender after all.

Now that the Manchu dynasty has fallen and a republican government has been established, the task of unifying the national currency has fallen to Zhao Bei.

Considering the usage habits of the people, Zhao Bei still decided to start the silver dollar, and at the same time make paper money that can be freely exchanged with the silver dollar, and then abolish the silver dollar when the time is ripe. Only paper money and copper coins are circulated as legal tender, and gold and silver are used as national reserves.

However, the U.S. economic adviser told Zhao Bei that if the gold standard cannot be established, then it will be more troublesome for Chinese goods to be exported, and the mining of silver has increased year by year, resulting in the continuous depreciation of silver, which is far less reliable than gold. Therefore, in the view of the US economic adviser, the current task is not to unify the currency system, but to abolish the silver standard.

In Zhao Bei's opinion. Of course, he would not approve the plan, but he would not dismiss the face of the head of the economic advisory group in person, so he accepted the plan and said, "I will convene the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to discuss this matter." Then he instructed an adjutant to lead Mr. Spike on a tour of the Shanhaiguan Castle.

As for the president himself. He continued to stay in the urban defense headquarters and discussed with more than a dozen senior staff officers to deal with the situation in the three eastern provinces.

These dozen senior staff officers are Zhao Bei's right-hand men, Lan Tianwei and Cai Yi needless to say, Jiang Zunbasket, Fu Liangzuo, Jiang Dengxuan, Sun Chuanfang, Gu Pinzhen, Qu Tongfeng, Chen Yan, these historical celebrities who are either famous or well-known in history are now Zhao Bei's subordinates, these people have basically studied in the Japanese 6th Army Non-commissioned Officer School, some have completed their studies, some have not returned to China when the revolution broke out, and some have firmly stood on the side of the revolutionaries from the beginning. Some people were briefly lost in the Beiyang group, but now, they are all on the side of President Zhao Da, some people are in command of the army in the local area, and some people are serving as presidential adjutant in the chamber, no matter what kind of work they are engaged in now, they are all subordinates of the president, if they have been loyal to the president, then the future prospects must be limitless, this point, they know in their hearts, so, where the president points, they will rush to.

The country is too weak, and the military sees this most clearly, and the military knows this better than those members of Congress. What kind of era, the survival of the weak and the fittest, in front of the great powers who sharpen their knives, only the army is the reliable pillar to defend this, the country, if you want to forge a strong army, you need a wise and wise leader, under the leadership of this leader, this army will usher in glory and glory.

Zhao Bei has proven his leadership credentials through a series of actions. Then, Lan Tianwei, Cai Su, Jiang Zunlan, Fu Liangzuo, Jiang Dengxuan, Sun Chuanfang, Gu Pinzhen, Qu Tongfeng, Chen Eun, these soldiers can follow the leader to find glory and glory.

This era belongs to the military, and it belongs to them even more.