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The brothers' so-called great disarmament was decided in July of that year, mainly because the finances were overwhelmed, after all, as the elder brother said, it was too much of a burden for a peaceful country to maintain a huge standing army of 8 million people, especially since China, even after three years of recovery and development, was still only a poor and backward agricultural country (in 1941, the ratio of China's total industrial and agricultural output had risen to 2:3, but it was still some distance from 1:1). ), which is even more unbearable, so disarmament is imperative. In fact, as early as the eve of the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Party Central Committee was already preparing for disarmament, but who knew that it would later fight with Britain more and more, and it could not stop, and as a result, the disarmament matter was actually delayed until the second half of 1942

Although not too stupid people could guess that the central government wanted to disarm, the scale of the major disarmament in 1942 exceeded the expectations of the vast majority of Chinese and even foreigners. According to the order issued by the Central Military Commission, the railway corps, with a total number of no less than one million troops, will be dismantled, and if the original officers and men are voluntary, they can be converted into public institutions and continue to work under the former railway corps headquarters renamed the Ministry of Railways, or they can find another job on their own. In the end, because Chinese still generally prefer stable jobs. More than seventy percent of the railway soldiers were retained to ensure the normal operation of the domestic railway system in the early days of the establishment of the Ministry of Railways

Although the equally large number of engineering units has not been abolished, they no longer belong to the PLA's combat sequence, but have been transformed into so-called "production units." From now on, they will no longer receive combat missions unless there is a large-scale invasion by foreign enemies and the state issues a general mobilization order. It must be noted that the "production troops" cannot be regarded as reserve forces, but should be regarded more as special administrative units organized in the form of troop establishments.

Compared with the engineering corps, which is more like a super-large institution, the construction corps, which also belongs to the "production troops," can be regarded as a special local administrative division, and the establishment of such an organization as the "Agricultural X Division" is actually very similar to that of a certain county in the locality. It's just that these "agricultural X divisions" can be transferred. And in these "peasant X divisions" there are also basic militias and ordinary militias. The latter two are the two levels of reserve in the true sense of the word. However, because the "production troops" are under militarized management and the organizational establishment is still the same as that of the troops, once mobilization begins, the militia reservists in these "production units" will form combat effectiveness faster than those in the localities.

And with the continuous expansion of the scale of the "production troops", especially the production and construction corps. Among them, the number of basic militias of the production troops, known as the "priority reserves", is also increasing. It quickly became an important link in the mobilization system of New China that cannot be ignored. In peacetime, they have made great contributions to the production and construction of the country, especially in the border areas and backward areas.

Compare with the Soviet terror of the "shadow troops" mobilization system. China's multi-level system, which covers "field army, border defense army, inland garrison army, armed police force, production force, basic militia, local basic militia, production force, ordinary militia, and local ordinary militia," can be said to be no less impressive; although the speed of military expansion in the early stage of the war is not as fast as that of the army, the potential in the later stage is even greater, and the negative impact on people's livelihood in peacetime is minimal, and it is even conducive to economic development. The Chinese people have always loved peace since ancient times, and the idea of national defense construction has also been based on defense, which can be seen from the mobilization system that attaches greater importance to lasting stamina

The separation of the railway troops, engineering troops, and production and construction corps from the combat sequence and even from the army system was expected by most Chinese, but the combat units were also greatly reduced, which was beyond the expectations of many people. Among them, about one million soldiers are transferred to the armed police force and even demobilized to become people's police, traffic police or firefighters, which can be said to be really necessary, but in addition, no less than 1 million people have been laid off, and the total strength of the Chinese army has been reduced to about 3 million, which inevitably makes Hu Weidong, the proposer of this disarmament plan, controversial.

In fact, Hu Weidong himself felt that the pace of disarmament was a bit too big, but in order to reduce the financial burden of the central government, speed up the completion of the domestic militia system, and at the same time promote the regularization of the PLA, it is better to carry out large-scale disarmament sooner rather than later. In addition, only a small number of high-level leaders of the central government, such as Taizu and Hu Weidong, knew that this major disarmament was actually done to a large extent for the Soviets, and only when they were relieved would they transfer a large number of troops from the Far East and Central Asia to reinforce the European part!

Although the Soviet Union gave China a lot of support during the Anti-Japanese War, their petty family spirit and biased attitude towards the Nanjing government made the Chinese Red Party somewhat dissatisfied, and because they thought that they had paid for the purchase and gave a lot of jishu in exchange, the Chinese did not have much gratitude for the Soviet Union's assistance in the past. As far as the CPSU and the Soviet government were concerned, China had a hot war with Germany before, which still makes them feel like a fish in the throat, and the independent foreign policy after the founding of New China also made the Soviets quite dissatisfied, especially during the Soviet-Finnish war, China actually openly supported the Finns who bravely resisted the Soviet invasion

There was the longest dividing line between the Soviet Union and China, and the power of the new China was growing rapidly, and it would be a terrible thing if China was hostile to the Soviet Union. The long-standing historical problems between the two countries were likely to become a time bomb buried in the relations between the two countries, which always made Stalin uneasy

For this reason, as early as the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union sent representatives to demand that the Chinese Red Party agree to a referendum in Outer Mongolia, which had long been de facto independent, and Stalin hoped to force the Chinese to abandon Outer Mongolia while the new China was not strong enough.

Stalin naturally knew that this would seriously damage the relations between the two countries and the two parties, but because of the special geographical location of Outer Mongolia, whichever country controlled Outer Mongolia would form a huge strategic advantage over the other. Stalin was not a man who liked to pin his hopes on others, and forced China to recognize the independence of Outer Mongolia and consolidate the original strategic advantage of the Soviet Union, and let the Chinese Red Party only be honestly the second in the future, which seemed to him to be the most reliable way (to be continued......