Chapter 902: The Army Goes First
When Huaxia was fighting for the last piece of territory in Australia, causing reconciliation between the United States and Japan, Meng Xiang had already realized that Huaxia was rising too quickly and was about to be attacked by those old empires.
Just like bullying, the old and new forces always have to fight for their interests, and only then do they recognize that the strength of the latecomers is enough to sit at the same table with them.
The United States, Germany, and other countries have all survived similar blows, and the current China is also not afraid of similar suppression.
It's a pity that it coincided with this world war, and it was the time to eat a big meal, and some of the suppression was out of shape, and even Huaxia's response had to be changed.
To be honest, Meng Xiang is really not afraid of the British, American and Japanese joining forces, but he hopes that their joint attack will be delayed. At this moment, Britain and France can't take care of Asia, and whoever can grab the big meal is whoever is whom, if they only care about fighting, maybe they really cheapen others.
The Americans will not be fooled easily by the instigation of the British, but if China behaves too strongly, the Americans will not mind pushing the boat down the river in advance.
General suppression, Huaxia can not care. However, Huaxia's current industrial base has been consolidated and is in the stage of improvement, and so many machines and technologies purchased recently have not been guided by foreign technicians. Some high-level technologies still need someone to lead the way.
Although there is still a line of Germans in China, it is easier to improve by learning from others.
Besides, Meng Xiang has no intention of hard topping, and if he can consume more of his opponent's strength, he will never let go of this opportunity for this fisherman to profit. At least Meng Xiang still has some regrets in his heart, even if he has been pushing for a long time, there are always accidents, and the damage in the United States and Japan has not yet reached his ideal level. Why not make the results a little better?
After grasping part of the bottom line of Britain and the United States through the anti-heaven means of cloning spies, Meng Xiang naturally set a plan for a low-key transition to show weakness to the enemy. Get ready to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.
Those situations in the country. There is no need to clone spies, it is simply the control of loyal clones, and the lineage of ordinary people who have been cultivated over the years. It is enough for Meng Xiang to control the overall situation, even in the parliament, there will be no such situation of being forced to be forced by others.
This is the same as the northern move of the Chinese army. It's just Meng Xiang's layout.
Since it is democratic, Meng Xiang doesn't mind showing some democratic atmosphere. The entire army and the money bag of the entire country are in Meng Xiang's hands, so what about giving others some democratic speaking power? What's more, as speculated by the outside world, the issue of military spending has indeed been a headache for Meng Xiang.
With the base producing most of the weapons, Meng Xiang was not too worried.
To his headache, as some of the circumstances surrounding the cost of the army became public, he needed some excuse to explain the source of the cost of many weapons.
The spirit of a fool who pays out of his own pocket to break his family for the country can be fooled in a short time, but it will take a long time. Few people believe it. The family's money can't be sustained for that long.
Especially with the mechanization process of the Chinese National Defense Force, such a cost consumption is even more shocking.
Meng Xiang didn't want to be too evil, even if there were clones in charge of the wealth. Seal those secrets. But the world is not all fools, there are always doubts. This requires some justifiable means.
A slight transfer to the state treasury. But it almost crushed the country's finances.
As part of the army's expenses are transferred to finance, especially the huge amount of military salaries and various military welfare benefits, the pressure has fallen on the state finances.
Meng Xiang almost exempted most of the agricultural tax burden at the beginning, coupled with policies such as support and exemption for industry and commerce, so that the state's financial revenue did not increase much with the improvement of the economy, and on the one hand, free compulsory education, some medical subsidies, and the construction of perfect public facilities everywhere made the finance already empty.
The salaries of tens of millions of people and the generous benefits of wartime were no longer a straw, but a mountain that weighed them over.
Although the payment of wages is made in the newly issued credit currency of the state, which can be printed directly from the money printing machine, it is not an uncontrolled indiscriminate issuance that causes inflation, and in the case of the integration of the national financial system, this kind of behavior is no less than drinking water to quench thirst.
If you add in the expenditure on weapons and other expenses for army building, which take up the majority of the money, it is definitely a number that many people look up to in despair for a lifetime.
Of course, the numbers piled up by these mountains of gold also mean great benefits to some people.
Lao Jiang and others also wanted to spread out the military expenditure and share the profits.
Meng Xiang pushed the boat along the way, but chose to make disarmament arrangements in accordance with the wishes of many of them.
This disarmament is not the disarmament of the other.
A group of soldiers laid down their weapons and became engineers, but they are still soldiers. However, the reduction is not small.
When the army fights a war, the cost is very high, and even when it is training, there are a lot of various subsidies and attrition costs. With 2 million troops not going to war, the cost of reducing training is enough to relieve the finances. Moreover, Huaxia also needs them to take up the heavy responsibility of building the Corps.
When Siberia was first developed, many people were still interested in becoming immigrants under the attraction of those preferential policies. However, with the stability of the country and the development of the economy, the idea that the homeland is inseparable from the bones of the people began to attack. Where can those remote areas compare with their increasingly prosperous hometowns? To be honest, the smaller counties in some regions are also more prosperous than the cities of Siberia.
For hundreds of years, the adventurous genes of the Chinese people have long been silent, and the idea of small wealth and peace has occupied the mainstream.
This has also led to a decreasing number of people voluntarily going to immigrate in China.
It's just that this kind of thing, using coercive means, does not work well. Otherwise, the Russians would not have fled back to Europe from the north in large numbers, resulting in a large number of empty nest towns in Siberia.
Australia, a rich place, can gather 100,000 immigrants without much agitation, but some places in the north and the South Seas are indeed very harsh.
Of course, there are many happy lands in Central Asia, South China and even Siberia, but people have preconceived ideas, and even if public opinion is hyped and agitated, it is difficult to encourage people to actively do it, and it needs to be influenced slowly.
It's just that Meng Xiang lacks enough time.
It is better to say that the north, which has emigrated 10 million, is in an unstable situation in Central Asia and the part of Southeast Asia that is currently under the control of China.
It is not enough to rely on the army alone, and the best way is to use the advantage of China's large population to crush all the people's resistance consciousness and completely turn those places into China's home turf. Even Taiwan, North Korea, and other places need immigrants mixed with the Chinese mainland to influence the ideology of the entire region.
The painting on a blank piece of paper in which the North drove out the Russians is naturally simpler, and there are still some ethnic minorities in Central Asia who are unwilling to come to open up, and it takes time and enough immigrants to grind in faith and culture and assimilate, but it is obvious that the more than 2 million immigrants in the whole of Central Asia are still less.
As for the Indochina Peninsula, the growth rate of the local indigenous population is not inferior to that of China, and the population is large, and if you want to completely digest it, you can only use the means of reducing it with one hand and adulteration with the other, and it will not work if there are fewer immigrants.
But the number of immigrants is far from enough.
Even though Meng Xiang has sent people to develop artemisinin in advance, the environment and climate in the tropics and subtropics still make many Chinese immigrants unadaptable. Relying on the surrounding Chinese, there are fewer personnel, and it is not a long-term solution.
"When it comes to immigration, the army goes first!" After pondering for a long time, Meng Xiang made such an instruction.
Although there were also measures to reduce economic pressure in the ancient frontier of Tuntian, it also revealed the meaning of the army first. Relying on the discipline of the army, treating the surrounding harsh environment as an opponent, improving the surrounding environment little by little, and facilitating trade and exchanges, more immigrants will come to shade and benefit.
Many important towns in China are all from this.
At the moment, in the case of insufficient immigration, Meng Xiang does not mind the army taking the lead first.
The national defense force in China was filled with a lot of local warlords, and when the country was unified, it was not suitable for direct liquidation, but after a long period of stability, some of them could be appropriately reduced. Even in the vanguard army, there were those who did not adapt to the long war and needed to withdraw from the ranks of the fierce fighting ranks.
And from 38 to the present, there are also many veterans who have started families and are tired of war.
Not all young men are suitable to be a qualified soldier, but Meng Xiang needs to establish the concept of compulsory military service, and when arranging the whereabouts of some soldiers, Meng Xiang thought of building the corps.
Those half-military, half-civilian construction corps will soon take their families several times their size and become the pioneers of the new frontier of China.
At present, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Outer Mongolia already have about 2 million construction corps, and with the development of the national defense force to the mechanized elite strategy, Meng Xiang has once again thrown out 2 million quotas and developed to Central Asia and Nanyang. Even later, with the end of the war, this number will be even more.
At the same time, even Britain and the United States did not know that while the Chinese army was disarming outward, it was also constantly carefully absorbing the new generation of soldiers who had grown up.
In addition to the Construction Corps and the domestic armed police force, the number of regular combat troops in China alone still exceeds 8 million, and they are preparing for a new round of foreign expansion.