Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2340 Overall Adjustment
The incident in Wuzhou finally came to an end after a vigorous discussion.On the one hand, this is the secret and active activities of all parties. On the other hand, because the Southern Movement faction is very suitable to jump out at this juncture, the attention of the Senate was quickly attracted again.

Although Xie Youren was criticized verbally and in writing, he became notorious.However, the ending was not satisfactory, but he was arranged to go back to the propaganda office and go to the Office of Truth to be responsible for the "material review" work, which was regarded as a idle job and stood aside.

Although the organizations and political security departments that were once under fire were also "criticized", they did not actually suffer substantial damage.After intense consultations, all parties agreed to a series of proposals on political security personnel changes and the addition of local branches proposed by Majia. Budget.The General Guard Bureau, which had almost only one brand, has also been implemented.Although the additional budget is expected, it still makes the financial department frown.

However, the consequences of the Wuzhou incident were far-reaching. Although Xie Erren's failure was insignificant in the overall situation, it confirmed a long-standing opinion within the Senate: the Senate did not have enough resources to launch a mainland strategy.

In the face of this living "tragedy", the public opinion of the Senate changed from "expanding the results of the war" to "hard training internal skills".Now the Yao in Guangdong is in full swing, and the plague in Guangzhou is not over yet, and they have to face Guangxi, which has a more complicated environment.If we have to attack from all directions, if the Senate can still support it militarily, the pressure on civil affairs, materials and finances is already so great that it is almost on the verge of collapse.Cheng Dong pointed out many times in his report to the cabinet that due to the excessive printing of silver dollar certificates, it was actually impossible to achieve the universal exchange of silver dollars within the scope of Hainan and Guangzhou Special City.

To a certain extent, the current severance of trade with Daming and the restriction of commercial activities by the plague in Guangzhou actually saved the new currency, so that the problem of insufficient silver dollar currency was not exposed.

After repeated consultations, the Senate held an informal plenary session in November 1635.Discussions were held on the next step of the mainland strategy.

Although less than half of the elders were able to attend due to the limitation of many elders' overseas transfers and business trips, the general office sent the main topics to each elder by telegram before the meeting, allowing them to express their views on their respective issues.

It was probably because the hearings had gone too far, and all parties had roughly acceptable results, so it was rare for this meeting to have no heated debates. The parties discussed the situation and finally reached a new strategy for the mainland.

It is said that there is not much difference between the new plan and the old plan, but it is clear again that the end point of the mainland offensive is to "take all Guangdong and Guangxi." After completing this strategic goal, there will be no new all-out offensives against the mainland.

Not only that, the Senate also clearly pointed out at the meeting that in the next "three to five years", large-scale military operations at the brigade level will be greatly reduced.The scale and frequency of military operations will be drastically reduced.The size of the Fubo army and navy will no longer expand.Focus on enriching the security warfare forces dominated by the National Army.

Overall, the new strategy has shifted from "expanding territory" to "deep governance".

The classification and governance policy of the core area, appeasement area, and security area in the original plan remain unchanged, but the scope of the core area is expanded to include Guangzhou Special City, Foshan Experimental Area, Wuzhou City, Nanning City, and Guilin City as the five main core areas.

Except for Foshan, all other cities were directly transformed from the "fu" of the original Ming Dynasty. Except for Fuguo County, most of them had the problem of too large jurisdiction area.Most of the governance of the core area is only concentrated within the scope of Fuguo County, that is, Fucheng, and it will be promoted in other counties under its jurisdiction according to the situation.That is to say, although Guangzhou Special City is the core area, only the three counties of Nanhai, Panyu, and Sanshui actually implement "deep governance".The same applies to other core governance areas.

In addition to these five core areas, important regional transportation hubs, commercial centers, and newly-built industrial and mining centers in Guangdong and Guangxi will also be targeted for "deep governance".These areas grasp the general principle of "should be less than more" and "the area under the jurisdiction should not exceed one county at most."

In the appointment of cadres, the proportion of naturalized civilian cadres will be reduced step by step according to the core area, appeasement area and security area.The intensity of institutional and social reforms has also been gradually reduced.The scope of use of the identification of "retained personnel" has been expanded.Originally local officials of the Ming Dynasty surrendered, as long as the official voice and performance were acceptable, they could be transferred from other places.For some areas where governance is difficult and the situation is complicated, the former officials who have outstanding governance performance can retain their original posts after inspection.

The work of cleaning up the acres and promoting the new tax system will be limited to the core area, and the appeasement area and public security area will be levied according to the tax quota of the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Compared with the original social transformation, the tone of the new plan has been lowered a lot.It is basically determined that it will only be implemented in the core area.

The wording of the appeasement area and the security area is "improvement", and it is only clear that "CHANGJI", "beggars" and "tooth shop" will be comprehensively reformed and rectified.The tone of the wording of the clans that were very exclusive in the past has also been greatly reduced. It is clearly mentioned that in the appeasement area and the public security area, "the interference of the clans in the judiciary and administration is prohibited, and the influence of the clans is gradually eliminated", and the original key mention is deleted. The sentence "focus on attacking and gradually eliminate clan power".

This approach without exception caused debate within the Senate, but the debate was not too intense.Because they had limited understanding of the power and role of their clans in the past, it was too easy to solve the local clans in Hainan Island, and it was inevitable that they would have the idea of ​​contempt.But the reality of Guangdong in the past few months has taught them a profound lesson.The clan power not only has a very broad social foundation, and performs many social services that the government cannot take care of, but more importantly, the clan is also an important social stabilizer in many areas where the Han and Yao are scattered and the law and order are disordered.

Destroying the clan not only consumes a lot of resources, the greater danger is that the Senate does not have enough resources to fill the vacancy left after the clan is eliminated.

Ideal finally lost to reality.If you want to gain a foothold in Guangdong and Guangxi.The clan had to be tolerated.Therefore, in addition to continuing to implement the old policy in key areas, all other places have switched to the new policy.

Fortunately, this adjustment has little impact on the naturalized cadres except for the impact on the veterans.Firstly, most of them could not understand why the Senate was so anti-clan, and secondly, the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi made them have no time to carry out such work.

Regarding the question raised by the elders of whether such a comprehensive contraction will condone local evil forces, the new countermeasure is to establish a special special search task force, with elite personnel selected from the armed forces, the General Reconnaissance Bureau, political security, intelligence and civil affairs departments. Work under the command of the elders.The core personnel of each team is about 100 people.When necessary, the local garrison and police can be dispatched to cooperate.

There will be six such special search teams, each in charge of the relevant area.

The special search team will independently conduct investigations in appeasement areas and public security areas, and carry out precise strikes against various evil forces that cause great grievances among the local people and seriously endanger the local area.On the one hand, it effectively demonstrates the authority of the Senate and supports the administrative work of the local government; on the other hand, it wins the hearts of the people;

In terms of military operations, it was decided to carry out the third batch of mobilization of the National Army and train the Xinde National Army Squadron in Hong Kong.At current loss levels, the squadrons of the first two waves are expected to have been depleted in recent months of security warfare operations.Squadrons with good performance and strong combat effectiveness will be repaired and replaced. Squadrons with excessive losses and poor records will be disbanded on the spot and supplemented by other squadrons.Finally, the standard configuration of one squadron per county and one brigade in Fucheng was achieved.In addition, mobile squadrons are deployed at key traffic points.

The newly formed squadrons are no longer equipped with standard spears, but all use Nanyang rifles, and the mobile squadrons use Mini rifles and shotguns instead to increase their firepower.All mobile squadrons participate in mountain warfare training.At the same time, a large number of recruits were recruited from the Yaomin and Cu people in Guangdong to enrich the team.

In terms of construction, it is determined to give priority to the construction of two major projects and their supporting facilities, one is Foshan Iron and Steel, and the other is Danzhou Chemical Industry.At the same time, the "Guangdong Agricultural Reform Plan" was launched.In order to give full play to Guangdong's agricultural production potential.

The urban reconstruction of Guangzhou was also approved. It was originally proposed that the senate and political institutions be moved northward to Guangzhou. However, due to the limited living facilities of the elders and some elders who stayed in Lingao for fear of being marginalized and opposed, a compromise was finally reached.A new headquarters in Guangzhou was established as the general authority for construction, administration and strategy in the mainland. At the same time, it was decided that the Central Reserve Bank, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Customs, and the Monopoly Bureau would all be relocated to Guangzhou, and other departments would set up offices in Guangzhou.

Obviously, the tone of this plan is much lower than the previous one.Various plans and arrangements have also become pragmatic.The heads of various departments, who were somewhat overwhelmed, breathed a sigh of relief, and the only one frowning was the finance and taxation department.

The proposal of going south to obtain resources put forward by the Southward Movement was finally partially passed.Although the new draft did not receive the direct resource support of the Senate as envisaged by the Southern Movement, but in accordance with the principle of not giving resources to the policy, the Senate approved the Southeast Asia Company to be renamed as Nanyang Company, a mixed-ownership enterprise of the first-level national policy.The Nanyang Company has greater autonomy in operation, can freely raise shares, and can organize trade, mining and colonization operations in various parts of Southeast Asia.

All property owned by the original Southeast Asian company will be used as capital injection for the new company. According to the equity distribution, 51% of the state-owned shares, 5% of the Senate, 15% of the individual shares of the veterans, and the remaining 39% of the shares will be used for the newly established "Southeast Asia Development Co., Ltd. Company”, the shares of which will be sold in the name of the company by way of public offering.

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