Chapter 840: Wind and Rain
readx; The reason why the United States is China's biggest enemy is not how much military threat the United States can bring to China, but how much economic threat the United States can bring to China. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Although China under Chen Jingyun is more radical in its ethnic policy, its economic form is a very standard free market economy, the so-called capitalism, in this case, it is almost certain that if both China and the United States become the victors of this war, then the economic war between the two countries will break out on a global scale after the war, and if China is not able to occupy enough fixed markets in the war, then it will lose the economic war in the future.
The economy has always been an important political and military influence, and if China's economy collapses, the disintegration of Chen Jingyun's vast empire will be inevitable, and Central Asia and Siberia and other regions will most likely re-read their strength.
As an ambitious scholar, Chen Jingyun would never allow the huge empire he had established to collapse overnight as soon as he died, and he didn't want to become Qin Shi Huang, and the empire would collapse before his bones were cold.
Even if it can't last for thousands of years, but it has to be maintained for decades, how can it not be worse than the Soviet Union in history, people can barely maintain it for decades, Chen Jingyun feels that no matter how bad it is, it can't be worse than Soviet Russia.
Territorial expansion has been almost completed in the past few years, and now Chen Jingyun no longer pursues any territorial expansion, nor does he have any hobby of unifying the world, and now what he has to do is how to use the next few years to create a stable and prosperous post-war market for China.
Of course, in this process, the "Ben" has to be completely castrated.
He said, "Ben is too close to China and has too many people, and the ethnic special surname is more disgusting, so although Chen Jingyun can't sink the entire island like those who say, or kill Yue himself, he is still confident that he will be castrated and raised as a pug, and the historical Americans can do it, and Chen Jingyun will not do worse than them."
Beginning in the second half of 1943, Chen Jingyun was already thinking about what reason to find and say, 'Ben is going to war!'
In the past few decades, China has always been Chen Jingyun's word, and the strategy in Chen Jingyun's mind is China's national strategy.
In the late autumn of 1943, at the Hongjia Mansion on the outskirts of Nanjing, the old man Hong Zitai said to Hong Zhiguang: "You have arranged arrangements in the past few months to transfer Rong Fei back from Kazakhstan, and I have already said hello to the Third Army, let him go to North Korea when the time comes!" ā
Hong Zhiguang frowned slightly when he heard this: "Father, now Rong Fei is doing quite well on the Turkmenbashi side, just last month because he led his troops to defeat a group of guerrillas, and won the Golden Double Sword Medal, several chief officers over there also have a good relationship with me, if Rong Fei continues to develop over there, in the middle of next year, I will push it back, with the prestige of our Hong family, there should be no problem in being promoted to major general." ā
Hong Zitai snorted coldly: "What do you know, let you transfer him back!" ā
When Hong Zhiguang saw his father's face like this, he immediately stopped arguing, but said respectfully: "My son strives to let him come back before the end of the year!" ā
Hong Zitai nodded, stopped talking and closed his eyes, and Hong Zhiguang retreated when he saw this
After Hong Zhiguang went out, Hong Zitai opened his eyes, his wrinkled face was full of loneliness, and then he stood up, walked a few steps and fell on an old photo, the photo is a young man, the young man is wearing a full set of army cadet uniforms, and he is holding a command knife with his hands wearing white gloves sideways, and his face shows the unique perseverance of a soldier.
Hong Zitai stroked the photo with his wrinkled hand, as if he wanted to caress the resolute face of the young man in the photo, and muttered: "You, you left too early!" ā
Looking at the photo, he seemed to remember the situation when the father and son met before Hong Zhilin's expedition, and vaguely remembered that his young son patted his chest and said that he would not disappoint his father, and vaguely remembered the last hug between the father and son, but that parting became a life and death parting, when he saw the death notice forwarded by the presidential palace, Hong Zitai did not ease his breath for several days.
The old man was immersed in the memories for a long time before he put down the photo, the tears in the corners of his eyes had already dried up, and after a while, he moved to the study and picked up the phone.
"Elder Hong, why did you call in person, if you have any instructions to pass on a word, I will go to your house!" On the other end of the phone came the voice of Admiral Guan Shijie.
Even though Guan Shijie is already the number one veteran of the navy, in the face of Hong Zitai, the real founding father, he still has to claim to be a junior, and he speaks with politeness and respect.
Hong Zitai's old voice revealed: "Calling is to tell you something, my family Rong Han is not in your navy, he has been in Myanmar for more than a year, and the family is also thinking about it, do you see if you give him a leave to come back to see me, an old man!" ā
Guan Shijie on the other end of the phone did not speak immediately, but pondered for a while before saying: "Where is this old man, where is this kind of trivial matter, where can you use your old man's heart, rest assured, I will let him return to China in a few days!" ā
Hong Zitai put down the phone, sighed and muttered: Rong Han, don't let me down!
On the other end of the phone, in the Nanjing Admiralty, Guan Shijie put down the phone and muttered, this Hong Zitai pulled down his face, and called himself in order to let his grandson return to China.
Although Hong Zitai said on the surface that Hong Ronghan had no holiday or something, the meaning of his words was obvious, that is, let Guan Shijie transfer Hong Ronghan from the Indian Ocean back to the First Fleet in China, otherwise he Hong Zitai would not have called him personally.
However, Guan Shijie was also puzzled, how could this Hong Zitai personally call and want to transfer his grandson to the First Fleet, could it be that he knew something?
However, Guan Shijie also shook his head: "How is this possible, at this time, it is a matter of national strategy, and there are only a few people who know about it, although he Hong Zitai is the founding father, but he has already withdrawn from the political center, how can he still know such urgent top-secret news?" ā
Guan Shijie thought for a long time and suddenly realized: "Maybe he really knows!" ā
Guan Shijie knows that this Hong Zitai is only the identity of the founding father, and the reason why the Hong family has become more and more prosperous for decades and has developed rapidly in the military and political terms is that in addition to Hong Zitai's status as a veteran, the more important thing is the good personal relationship between Hong Zitai and Chen Jingyun.
Everyone knows that the only people in this country who can be commensurate with Chen Jingyun's peers are Hong Zitai and a few other founding fathers, not to mention talking to Chen Jingyun normally, and they don't dare to say a word loudly, Guan Shijie himself is no exception.
Hong Zitai's identity is really possible to learn about this confidential matter from Chen Jingyun's mouth.
Guan Shijie guessed blindly, but he didn't say that he called to ask Hong Zitai if he knew anything, just wanted to see what positions in the First Fleet were suitable for arranging Hong Ronghan.
Immediately, Guan Shijie said to the adjutant: "Take Hong Ronghan's resume!" ā
After a while, Guan Shijie read Hong Ronghan's resume and said to the adjutant beside him: "What is the vacancy of the colonel position in the First Fleet now?" ā
This adjutant is also Guan Shijie's confidant, and he has been following him for many years, so he immediately shook his head and said: "There are still many colonel positions in the First Fleet, but this Hong Ronghan is not an ordinary person, his qualifications are acceptable, and it is normal for him to be transferred to a further step, but if this arrangement is not appropriate, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to Hong Lao!" ā
The adjutant pondered for a while before saying: "If it can be arranged in the near future, the more important position is the captaincy of the Zhujiang, and the captaincy of the Qingshan will also be vacant in the second half of the month, but Colonel Feng Yuanan has been booked before, and if it is to be retransferred, it will have to be rescheduled." In addition, the cruiser Futong has also been officially commissioned, and there is still a shortage of a colonel commander, and several fleet commands also have vacancies for colonel staff officers. ā
Guan Shijie also pondered for a while after hearing this, if Hong Ronghan was transferred, he would definitely not be able to continue to serve as the captain of the destroyer, because in the Chinese Navy sequence, the rank of ordinary destroyer captain is lieutenant colonel or major, and the situation of the captain of the colonel is generally that the captain is promoted to the rank after meritorious service, but he cannot vacate the position of colonel for a while, so he continues to serve as the captain of the destroyer with the rank of colonel.
The captain of the capital ship above the cruiser is the colonel. However, Guan Shijie felt that Hong Ronghan's resume was not too perfect, and he was still too young, so if he was the captain of the capital ship, he would not mention the question of whether he could convince the public, and this lack of command experience was enough to eliminate him. Don't look at the large number of ships in China, but most of them are still destroyers, and the capital ships can be named one by one, and the important surname of a capital ship in the navy is much more important than that of a division of the army.
Therefore, due to the great expansion of the navy, there are a lot of young colonels in many destroyers and other auxiliary ships, but the captains of some capital ships are all senior colonels, and these senior colonels are also future rear admiral seeds.
So Guan Shijie thought about it for a while and said: "The captain of the Qingshan is still arranged, this Feng Yuanan's ability is there, and he can be of great use after a period of training." As for the Pearl River! ā
The Pearl River, that is, the third ship of the Yangtze River class large cruiser, is also the last large cruiser built in China, and its status in the navy is used as a small battleship, and it is also an important escort ship for the aircraft carrier formation. As for this Hong Ronghan, arranging him in the headquarters will definitely not be able to satisfy Hong Zitai.
Guan Shijie knows very well that what the disciples of these powerful families are most eager for is military exploits, and whenever a war breaks out, the people of various families try their best to transfer the children of the family to the front line to make meritorious contributions, and staying in the headquarters is obviously not what they expect.
Thinking about it, Guan Shijie felt that it was better to transfer Hong Ronghan to the Futong as the captain, and first look at the ability, if it didn't work and then withdraw it in a few months, it couldn't affect the overall combat readiness of the First Fleet because of him.
As for his identity as a son of the Hong family, it is actually nothing, there are more descendants of powerful families in China's navy, land and air force, and compared with ordinary civilian officers, at most there are more opportunities for meritorious service, but the overall promotion path still has to be carried out according to the system, and if you are incapable, you can't climb up. Not to mention Hong Zitai's sons, his two sons Guan Shijie and several sons of Shen Gang of the Army are all in the army, and now they are all still at the rank of lieutenant, and it will be several years before he is promoted to major general and enters the general rank.
Not every son of a powerful person can become a lieutenant general before the age of 30 like Chen Jingyun's sons, and they will take over Chen Jingyun's class from then on, and joining the army is just an early stage of politics.