readx; For the distribution of military spending in 1941, the bigwigs of China's navy, army, and air force all went into battle shirtless without regard for their faces, and the intensity of the quarrel was no less than that of any previous year, and the smell of gunpowder between the three armies was extremely strong, even if they usually called each other brothers, but at this time they would not scruple about any personal feelings, and this situation made Air Force General Huang Feihang, who attended the meeting on the allocation of funds of the three services for the first time, a little uncomfortable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the 20s, there was only one air force general, and in the thirties, he was promoted to another general, but he was promoted to general when he was about to retire, and he was retired after just one year of promotion, which can be regarded as a kind of comfort promotion.

Huang Feihang was also a core general in the early days of the Air Force, and was promoted to lieutenant general early, but due to age and seniority, he has not been able to make much of a breakthrough, and it was not until last year that he was appointed chief of the Air Force, and he was successfully promoted to general, and this is also the first time he has participated in the military expenditure allocation meeting.

Wu Shizhong, the veritable No. 1 boss of the Air Force sitting beside him, a member of the Standing Committee of the State Military Commission, due to the gradual increase in the number of generals in China, Chen Jingyun began to divide the State Military Commission into two kinds at the beginning of the year before last, one is an ordinary general, that is, any active general is a member of the State Military Commission, but as the number of active generals has approached 30, Chen Jingyun has to set up a standing committee member. The Standing Committee members are two people from each branch of the armed forces, and they cannot be the commanders of various ministries or the commanders of the fleets and the commanders of the group armies, that is to say, they cannot have other substantive positions, and they must be able to stay in Nanjing for a long time to follow Chen Jingyun to deal with military affairs, so that Chen Jingyun can find them at any time, and the current standing committee members include Shen Gang and Li Jimin of the army, Guan Shijie of the navy, and Wu Shizhong of the air force. If you add Chen Jingyun, it is just five people.

And around the round table are admirals of the army and navy, Shen Gang and Guan Shijie are among them, and they are all powerful military bigwigs outside, but at this time, they are blushing and shouting loudly.

"Hmph, don't think I don't know what your air force is, the B19 bomber sounds good, bombing the continental United States, and I don't want to think about bringing a little bomb, which can kill a few Americans, and a B19 is more than 3 million, how many can you sell? Now no less than 50 million yuan has been spent on a preliminary plan alone, and you are irresponsible to the country and the nation, if this 50 million is given to our navy, it is enough for us to buy seven or eight hundred carrier-based aircraft, and it will be no problem to burn the whole of San Francisco into a sea of fire! Guan Shijie looked at Wu Shizhong with disdain, and unceremoniously pointed out that many projects of the Air Force are huge but have zero effect: "There is also the B15 project a few years ago, tell me how much money you wasted, and in the end, you didn't even see a hair, and the Chinese people said that our navy is a gold-swallowing beast, but I think your air force is a pure loser!" ”

Wu Shizhong listened to Guan Shijie's words, gritted his teeth, the hatred in his heart, the regret, because what Guan Shijie said was not wrong, the Air Force has launched various research and development projects since the thirties, especially after 1935, and most of these research and development projects have failed, and only a very few can succeed. But it is these very few successful projects that hold up China's sky, without huge investment, without many failures, how can it be successful? Could it be that Guan Shijie thought that the name of the world's No. 1 Air Force of the Chinese Air Force came for nothing.

"If we hadn't invested a lot of upfront R&D, would your navy have an aircraft? It's not all about picking up the rest after our ass! ”

Guan Shijie disagreed with Wu Shizhong's words: "Are we calling it cost saving and making effective use of existing resources? Do you think that our navy is as good as your air force, and it is not possible to do it in a high way, and there is no need to spend extra money to do it if there are ready-made ones! ”

Faced with Guan Shijie's shameless words, Wu Shizhong stood up and slapped the table heavily: "Your navy is too deceitful!" Then he turned his head to look at Shen Gang and the others in the army, and then said: "No matter what, this year, in addition to the rated 4 billion, our air force must ensure at least 2 billion, otherwise our air force will not be able to effectively complete the follow-up development plan, and naturally it will not be able to maintain its advantage in the war. ”

At this time, Shen Gang of the army glanced at Wu Shizhong, and he naturally understood in his heart what the air force said that it could not guarantee the air defense of the front, which was nothing more than that it could not guarantee the air safety of the front-line army units, but then again, the army and the navy are different, because the navy has its own aviation force, it has been in constant contradiction with the air force since the twenties, and there are many contradictions in aviation power, but the army itself does not have aircraft, and it needs to rely on the support of the air force when fighting on the front line. In addition, when the Chinese Air Force was first built, the Army Aviation was separated, and now many core generals in the Air Force are from the Army, and these relationships add up to a natural cooperative relationship between the Army and the Air Force. However, this kind of cooperation does not mean that the interests of the Air Force should be sacrificed because of the interests of the Air Force.

The factional struggle within the army is much more serious than that of the navy and air force, the scale of the army is too large, there are many high-ranking generals, and there are almost 20 generals on active duty.

After all, the army has been suffering for several years, although the army's military spending has been rising overall over the years, but the proportion of military expenditure distribution has been declining, in 1939 it was only 30 percent, and last year it was slightly increased to 33 percent, but this share is still not large, you must know that before the mid-thirties, the army's military spending accounted for the vast majority, before 1935 it was never less than 60%, but after 1935 it has been declining year by year, although it has been able to develop rapidly with the country's economy, The total amount of military spending has increased very rapidly, and the army's military spending is also increasing every year, but the proportion is falling again and again.

The reason for this is naturally because of Chen Jingyun's arrangement, in Chen Jingyun's early layout, it was determined that World War II would break out, so it was necessary to build those capital ships before China entered the war, otherwise it would be too late to rebuild it when the war broke out, while the army and air force were relatively simple, as long as they maintained appropriate troops and research and development efforts, and when the war was about to arrive, it would be possible to expand on a large scale even after the outbreak of war. Under these circumstances, in the late thirties, China's military expenditure allocation was heavily tilted towards the navy, otherwise the navy's costly development plans would not have been possible.

As soon as Chen Jingyun put on a face for them, they didn't dare to say anything, and they couldn't talk about competing for military spending, but before the specific distribution of military spending among the three armed services, the three armed forces could hold consultations to a certain extent, and then report to Chen Jingyun after agreeing on the specific contents.

For example, in the 1941 military budget, Chen Jingyun had already negotiated with the Ministry of Finance, and in addition to the normal state fiscal revenue, he also raised up to 20 billion yuan in military spending through the issuance of state bonds, and it was estimated that the total national income in 1941 would only be 160 billion yuan, which would be $10 billion in US dollars, and the total national income would be about $80 billion.

As a comparison, the gross national income of the United States in 1941 was about 120 billion US dollars, on the surface, China's gross national income can be two-thirds of that of the United States, but this does not mean that China's industrial strength has reached two-thirds of that of the United States, because China has a large population, a large number of farmers, and the agricultural economy is still a very important part of the economic system. But the size of the industry is at most half that of the United States, if not even yet.

Regardless of the number of population, just consider the industrial scale, then China's war potential is only less than half of the United States, of course, the war is not only to consider the industrial scale, but also to consider a variety of resources, and China's population resources are undoubtedly the most advantageous of all resources, not to mention anything else, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Soviet Russia, they want to expand to tens of millions of troops, then the lack of manpower will have an impact on the normal production of the country, but for China, Getting an army of 10 million will not affect the normal production of the country in the slightest, and if it is necessary and the industry can afford to support it, it will be no problem to get 20 million troops.

At the end of 1940, Chen Jingyun knew that the war was getting closer and closer to China, whether China was willing or not, active or passive, then the war would break out within one or two years, and in this case, he could no longer consider focusing on the development of the economy, but turned the direction to the expansion of armaments, and the military expenditure of up to 20 billion yuan was from this background, which was fully doubled compared with last year.

In 1941, the U.S. budget was as high as $13.8 billion, accounting for about 10 percent of the national output of that year, and this proportion was quite low for other countries, not to mention the countries that had already participated in the war, and the Soviet Union and Russia said that the economy was meaningless, or taking China as an example, China's military expenditure of 20 billion yuan accounted for 25 percent of the national output value, if we only compare the proportion of military spending in the industrial output value of the two countries, Then the proportion on the Chinese side will be higher.

From this point of view, in fact, China's current economic system has entered a wartime economic system, especially the industrial economy has begun to serve the war in an all-round way.

Chen Jingyun felt that the war was approaching and he had made 20 billion military spending, and how to distribute the military expenditure was a big problem! Although Chen Jingyun had already made it clear from the beginning that in the allocation of military spending, the navy must ensure the smooth implementation of the eighth and ninth phases of the plan, while the air force must also carry out the research and development and equipment of various new aircraft, and the army needs to further expand its strength. That is to say, the funds required for the plans formulated in the various armies before 1941 must be guaranteed, but to be honest, the funds for these plans have been implemented one by one, but they still can't spend so much military spending!

Just like the United States, those members of the National Assembly are also afraid of death, seeing that a world war is coming, so they have given tens of billions of military spending to the Navy, and the US Navy was still crying out about poverty two years ago, but throwing so many dollars at once is to smash them unconscious, so that they don't even have a good plan for how to spend it, and can only increase orders for aircraft carriers and warships to absorb these military spending.

At present, in addition to the military expenditure required by the original plan, China's three armed forces have also spent more than 6 billion yuan, and this part is the key area of contention between the three armed forces. Wu Shizhong just opened his mouth and asked for two billion, that is, one-third.

And this naturally made Shen Gang and Guan Shijie unable to agree, without Guan Shijie opening his mouth, Shen Gang said: "I naturally know the difficulties of the Air Force, but the Air Force has such a small number of people, and our army has a large number of personnel, so we are planning to use 5 billion yuan to improve the food of officers and soldiers!" ”

Guan Shijie was unmoved in the face of the words of these two people, and still said with a calm face: "I won't say more nonsense, these six billion miles, I don't want more, I want two and five billion, not a single point less!" Otherwise, even if the lawsuit is brought to the chairman's side, I will accompany it! ”

After saying that, he snorted coldly: "This money is related to the development of the ninth phase of our navy's plan, and it is a key project ordered by the chairman himself, and it cannot be delayed!" ”

Shen Gang also frowned when he heard Guan Shijie say this: "Could it be that only the ninth phase of your navy's plan is a key project, and our army's ten armored divisions plan is child's play?" ”

Wu Shizhong also interjected: "Our plan for the five major air forces is also a key development plan instructed by the chairman himself, and this money is indispensable!" ”

In the end, the people of the navy, army, and air force did not get along, and finally broke up unhappily, and then the navy, army, and air force sent the various plan reports that had been prepared early to Chen Jingyun, and the purpose was very simple, that is, they hoped to gain an advantage in the final distribution of military spending.

In the face of the competition between the navy, land and air forces, Chen Jingyun couldn't help but sigh, Chen Jingyun stopped directly interfering in the distribution of military spending of the three armed forces a long time ago, he was controlled from behind, after all, the distribution of military expenses is easy to cause contradictions, and Chen Jingyun is not easy to be biased, so he can only control it from behind, and this year is really unexpected, and sometimes it is not a good thing that there is more military spending.

In the end, Chen Jingyun did not decide directly, but became a peacemaker and called Wu Shizhong, Guan Shijie and Shen Gang over, in front of Chen Jingyun, they naturally did not dare to be presumptuous, and they all changed their faces one by one, and they would reason and cry poor. But in the end, the matter was finally settled.

In 1941, the army accounted for 39 percent, the navy accounted for 36 percent, and the air force accounted for 25 percent.