Chapter 310: A New Beginning for Haihan's Military Industry
The requirements for training methods not only come from the newly established navy, but also from the increasing establishment of the army, the specialization of the armed forces, the tactical evolution of the era of hot weapons, and the establishment of the modern military system. In particular, with regard to the training of naturalized civilian officers at the grass-roots level, the model of batch explosion of troops that only relies on ordinary military training can no longer meet the needs of the new situation.
After taking into account the opinions and objective needs of all sides, the military decided to create a special military school to solve this problem. When Tao Donglai announced the news, in fact, the construction of the military academy had quietly started in the barracks area on the east bank of Shengli Port. After the completion of this military academy, the recruits will be selected from the active army and navy, and these lucky ones will have the opportunity to become the generals of the future republic.
In addition to training commanders and fighters for its own military forces, the establishment of this military academy also has a function that is inconvenient to publicize, that is, to train combat personnel for certain external forces supported by the crossing group. For example, after the persuasion of Qian Tien Dun and others, the North Vietnamese side had already sent some officers headed by Truong Dinh to prepare for a period of special training courses at Victory Port. There is also news from Fujian that the Xu Xinsu Group will send people to Shengli Port in the near future to learn the operational tactics of muskets and artillery, the maintenance and repair of weapons, and so on. As for "Fu Ruifeng," not to mention, since the establishment of the Guangzhou Office, there have always been people in the Li Jiamin League who have been trained by military representatives of the Guangzhou Office.
Although military aid of this nature is not as effective as the arms trade of directly selling guns and guns, the Executive Committee and the military attach great importance to it. What these trainees from outside can learn from the Haihan military is basically based on the basis of hot weapon warfare, and in the entire Far East at present, there is no second company in the entire Far East that can compare with the crossing group, but any external force that accepts the Haihan set of operational theories will inevitably become extremely dependent on the supply of weapons, and it will be difficult to form a military confrontation with the crossing group.
Of course, there are still some lessons of history that have to be absorbed, and the stupidity of spending money to slap the face is also an aspect that the military should try to avoid by the stupidity of supporting some foreign armed forces for decades like a certain lighthouse country, and then constantly being hit on its feet by these moving stones after a few years. The military also has a relatively adequate precautionary measure against this, that is, the best political work propaganda.
In the current restructuring of the Military Police Department, in addition to the conspicuous separation of the police force and the separate formation of the navy and land, the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China also referred to the establishment of several functional subdivisions of the Political Office, the General Staff Office, the Logistics Department, and the Equipment Department. Among them, the work area in charge of the political department is the internal political work and military discipline supervision of the military, and it is also the window for the military to carry out propaganda work internally and externally. For the foreign personnel who come to receive training, the brainwashing course must be one of the necessary links in the whole training, even if they cannot change the thinking of these trainees into the highest mission of "loyalty to the executive committee" like the militia soldiers, at least they can be brushed to the Cheng dù of the "East African Liberation Army" in later generations.
For the Haihan military, how many tactics these troops can learn and how far their combat effectiveness can be improved are secondary, and the most important thing is to make these officers' butts unswervingly sit on Haihan's side from now on, and they can't have any thoughts of being enemies of Haihan. The Crossing Group needs an affiliate force that can fight with its own armed forces when necessary, not a competitor strong enough to pose a threat to itself.
The General Staff Office is the military command organ of the Central Military Commission, and in the future, the General Staff Office will be responsible for drawing up and organizing various military plans and directing and coordinating the combat operations of the armed forces. The logistics office is to manage the military supply, health services, garrison construction and other affairs of the various units in a unified manner.
It is worth mentioning that the newly established armament department, as the name suggests, is responsible for the research and development and manufacturing of weapons and equipment throughout the army. In the past year, the shortcomings of the organizational setup of the military industrial system have gradually become apparent, and the responsibilities and powers of the participating units are unclear, resulting in the inability to effectively improve the work efficiency of the military industrial units. Although the Executive Committee recognized this problem early on, because there were too many relevant units, the impact of rash institutional adjustment was too great, so this matter was in the preparatory stage, and it was not until the first anniversary that all aspects of the preparatory work were almost done, and Tao Donglai announced the relevant adjustment plan at the meeting.
All production units involved in the R&D and manufacturing of military equipment will jointly fund with the Equipment Department of the Central Military Commission to set up an economic entity to serve as the unit in charge of military production. To put it simply, this is a 17th-century version of the "Norinco Company", which is responsible for arranging the research, development, and production of armaments projects, coordinating the relationship between the military and the design and production units, and at the same time taking over the foreign arms trade and part of the military aid program, so as to realize the integration of production, supply and marketing.
This new organization, which has considerable authority, will be named "Haihan Ordnance Industry" and will take over all weapons and equipment production affairs in the near future. Prior to this election, the previous Executive Committee had passed a resolution appointing the Executive Committee in charge of industry, Mr. Bai Kesi, as the chief executive officer of Haihan Ordnance. After the establishment of this organization, it is expected to change the current situation of poor communication and unclear responsibilities and powers in the three links of development, production, and use in the military industrial system. His first task after taking office was to negotiate with the North Vietnamese mission on arms sales and other military assistance plans within the year.
Another military-related announcement made at the meeting was the expansion of the Crossing Group's garrison in Annam into an independent battalion in the colonial area. During the January operation to aid Vietnam, the Heitu Port side actually had three companies of armed personnel, which was not much different from the battalion level. The Heitu Port militia troops led by Qian Tiandun and others made many miraculous achievements in the 20-day battle, and their performance was very good, and the expansion after the war was almost a sure thing. The announcement of this matter now is also a warm-up for the military award ceremony three days later, when Qian Tiandun's promotion and commendation order and the announcement of the establishment of the independent battalion of the Annan Colonial Region will be announced again at the award ceremony.
After the completion of the major adjustment of the organization centered on the former Military Police Department, the rest of the publicity content is basically a refinement of the functions of each department. For example, the Ministry of Finance will subdivide the budget department, the finance department, the accounting department and other departments, and delegate some of the powers to various lower-level functional departments.
However, there are not many units that can complete the restructuring of the Ministry of Finance smoothly, after all, the number of professionals is limited, and some departments that use black technology are simply unable to train naturalized citizens who can take over the work in the short term. For example, the Communications Department and the Equipment Support Department of the Ministry of Information Industry do not have any staff members who are naturalized citizens, because the basic equipment used is electronic equipment, and it is difficult to teach those who cannot read a single word or a word. Before the restructuring of the Ministry of Information Industry, there were only 18 full-time and part-time members, and after the adjustment, it is still so many, which also reflects the fundamental reason for the defeat of the former executive committee member Meng Hehui in this election.
In fact, the re-election of the Executive Committee was completed in less than an hour, but it took a whole day to announce the organizational adjustment plans of each unit. Fortunately, these adjustments are much larger and are only in terms of administrative ownership, but there is no need for the units involved to relocate and adjust. Most of the members will remain in their original positions, and only a very small number of personnel will need to change their locations according to the assignment.
After this organizational review, the Executive Committee will not make major adjustments to its internal institutional setup during the year, and at most it will add some middle and lower-level management institutions according to the needs of its functions. Although this is a time-consuming and troublesome process, and there are some complaints among the members, from the perspective of long-term development needs, the Executive Committee believes that making timely adjustments to the organizational setup at this stage can avoid greater problems in the future. Now, after all, the ship is small and easy to turn around, and there are relatively few stakeholders involved, so it can make corresponding adjustments before many shortcomings and disadvantages are not solidified, and if we wait for the group to develop to a certain scale in the future, or even after the establishment of political power, we will not want to go back and change some institutional settings, then I am afraid it will not be as easy as it is now.
After the afternoon meeting, there was a traditional celebration of eating and drinking. Tao Donglai did not forget to ask people to invite Zheng Zheng and Zheng Ting's uncles and nephews of the North Vietnamese Mission to participate in this gluttonous feast. Of course, the uncle and nephew of the Zheng family, who didn't know what was going on, soon fell victim to the gang's serial tricks at the wine table, were poured with meat and eight vegetables, and were carried off the stage before the banquet was over.
As a newcomer to the executive committee and the top officer of the police department, Ren Liang can be described as a double happiness today, and naturally became the target of everyone's siege at the wine table. Although Ren Liang was very tough to hold out for half the game, in the end, there were still many heroes and enemies, and he could not escape the fate of being carried away from the battlefield.
The civil affairs department has always been more concerned about the supply of local alcohol, although whether it is public goods or private collections, a lot of alcoholic beverages were brought over when they traveled, but except for some necessary banquets, the executive committee has not held a large-scale cocktail party like this one in this year. When some guys who drank too much in the back, they inevitably couldn't help but be in love, and there were a few small disputes, but they were quickly quelled. There are also some people who have been prepared for a long time, and quietly retreat halfway through the drink, and go to the business district of the port to have fun.
Until the treetops on the moon, there are at least three tables of old wine cans still insisting on fighting on the front line, as for who made it to the end of this night, because there are too many people who have drunk memory fragments, and there is no video material to corroborate, there are different opinions afterwards and it is no longer possible to restore the truth. However, according to the statistics of the civil affairs department, this anniversary dinner party basically wiped out one-third of the various liquor reserves in the material warehouse, and the combat effectiveness was still considerable.
However, the after-effects of this dinner party were also impossible to ignore, and the various meetings scheduled for the next morning had to be postponed until the afternoon because a considerable number of the participants were still in a semi-comatose state. Fortunately, the logistics department also expected this to happen, and prepared a large amount of sobering soup to save the guys.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the red-eyed Tao Donglai and Bai Kesi met with the North Vietnamese envoy, who was also sick and unable to keep up his spirits.
Tao Donglai has dealt with Zheng Zheng, and both sides are well aware of each other's status in the camp, so they have saved a lot of trouble. Tao Donglai first introduced to Zheng Zheng Zheng the identity of Bai Kesi and the policy adjustment of the arms trade, after all, the future arms exports will be operated by the "Haihan Military Industry" led by Bai Kesi, and he will also slowly withdraw from the specific management of arms trade affairs, at most at the executive committee to check the general policy direction.
Zheng Zheng listened for a while before he realized that the people who dared to love the Haihan had set up a special department to deal with the arms trade and foreign military aid. Although he didn't quite understand why the Haihan people wanted to set up such an organization, since he did so, there must be a reason. Zheng Zheng waited until Tao Dong finished speaking, and then asked very cautiously: "Then after this 'Haihan Military Industry' takes over the arms business, will this price change?"
"There will be no change in the price in the near future, and we will still provide you with the best weapons according to the previous year's supply price. In addition, we have prepared a military refresher course for your senior officers, and you can choose to send twenty officers each year to Victory Harbor for training. ”
"Then this cost ......" Zheng Zheng Zheng was really scared by the knocking of the bamboo on the Haihan side, after each purchase order was negotiated, it was enough to make the magnates on the Thang Long Mansion feel pain for a long time, but these things of the Haihan must be bought, whether it is salt or guns, it has now become a necessity for the North Vietnamese high-level to maintain the stability of the regime, even if they know that they will be extorted by the Haihan people, they can only bite the bullet.
"The cost is good to say. Bai Kesi replied with a smile: "Your trainees only need to prepare the living expenses during the training, and this kind of advanced training course is only held for close partners, and it is for the purpose of maintaining friendly relations between the two parties, so we will not charge any other fees." ”
The Executive Committee and the military have long reached a consensus on this detail. Recruiting senior students without tuition seems to make much money, and most of them have to pay for training, but after they return to school, they will often become middle and high-level leaders in the local armed forces, and the influence they can have in their respective territories in the future is the part that the executive committee values. Not to mention anything else, even if these people can give arms orders to the crossing group after they take power in the future, they don't know how to earn back tens of thousands of times the training fees.
Zheng Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then said thoughtfully: "Your training plan is very far!"
Bai Kesi didn't intend to take Zheng Zheng as a fool, so he nodded and acknowledged his point of view: "The reason why we propose this training plan is because we believe that the cooperative relationship with you is not just for a short period of time, but will develop in a long-term, stable and sustainable way. We believe that there are many aspects of long-term cooperation between the two sides, whether it is in the arms trade, in the training and combat methods of the military, and in terms of organizational structure. We have a very sincere attitude and hope to enhance the combat effectiveness of your army through various means, and to realize the peaceful reunification of Annam at an early date. For us, gold and silver are not the first priority, but the long-term relationship between us and us. ”
Regarding Bai Kesi's answer, although Zheng Zheng has many words that are not particularly clear, he understands the general meaning. He had to sigh that although these Haihan people were all dressed as merchants, their ability to play an official tone was much better than the Annan bureaucrats he had seen.
The Haihan people clearly figured out the so-called training of guò to win over the senior officials of the North Vietnamese army and seek long-term interests, this trick Zheng Zheng can actually understand, but the other party explained so roundly, their black intentions immediately became a good heart, and it was also linked to the cooperative relationship between the two sides, it seems that if Zheng Zheng did not agree to this immediately, then the future cooperative relationship between the two sides would be shrouded in a shadow.
Although Zheng Zheng had already learned this way of negotiation for the Haihan people, he still felt uncomfortable when he met him again. Whether it was the initial arms sales negotiations, or the later proposal of the Haihan people to assist the southern battlefield by force, Zheng Zheng felt that his side had always been on a very passive side. In the end, not only did he have to pay a lot of money, but he also had to promise a lot of unreasonable conditions to the Haihan people, and he made it as if he was begging the other party for help, and this time it was the same. Looking at Bai Kesi's hateful smiling face, Zheng Zheng really wanted to be willful and ask someone to drag him out and beat him up.
Of course, this is just a thought, after seeing the harbor fortifications of the Haihan people yesterday, Zheng Zheng has decided to put down the shelves during the Victory Harbor and not show any negative feelings in front of the Haihan people. If he can have so many Haihan cannons, Zheng Zheng believes that the front line of fighting for the river and Hengshan will definitely become indestructible...... No, he must lead the army to the south, step on Hue Province all the way, eliminate the traitor Nguyen clan, and return Annam to a unified situation.
In order to achieve this goal, Zheng Zheng felt that he should try to buy as many advanced weapons as possible from the Haihan people, and it would be best if they could cooperate in the attack on South Vietnam. And the only way to get these arrogant Haihan people to follow their own wishes is to show excellent cooperation in front of them. Whether it is military personnel training or human exchange, Zheng Zheng decided to accept it first, and strive to provide more military assistance to the Haihan people, such as the new musket used by the Haihan militia, or the warship that can get the Haihan sailors