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"The military's political and ideological work must be given top priority. An army without ideas and beliefs has no soul and combat effectiveness." Wang Zhenyu is lecturing the members of the political guidance department to be formed by the Youth Army. After thinking about a problem, it was decided to establish it.

This problem has actually troubled Wang Zhenyu for a long time. Simply put, it is the question of whether the army should be nationalized.

Specifically using the example of later generations, in Wang Zhenyu's original world, the U.S. Army was almost the most powerful existence.Dictators all over the world will foam at the mouth nervously and twitch all over when they hear the news that the U.S. Army has appeared on their own territory.Because they know that the consequence of the long-term dictatorship of their regime is that they can no longer unite the people with lies, and without the support of the people, the army that can only rely on it can't do anything against the U.S. military, even if the U.S. military It's useless to be greedy for life and fear of death all the time. These mercenaries are holding the most advanced weapons in the world. I don't know if they were given to them by aliens.

Far away, although the US military is so terrifying, there was still a kind of army in the world at that time that gave Americans headaches.The equipment of this kind of army may not be as good as that of the US military, but they have an advantage that Americans will never be able to surpass, and that is political thought.In this kind of army, there are a large number of political cadres. Their task is not to fight, but to brainwash, er, no, it should be education and agitation.Their work efficiency is much higher than that of the priests accompanying the US army. With their hard work, every ordinary soldier becomes extraordinary. They will firmly believe that they are fighting to liberate all mankind, and they will firmly believe that They are extremely just and honorable, and they will firmly believe that the final victory must belong to themselves and the party.In many cases, they will dedicate their lives to the party without hesitation. They will fight to the last moment of their lives knowing that they must die. They will fight you with their lives, but you still want to fight. After the end, go back and reunite with your wife and children.These political cadres are the most powerful individual weapon in Red Alert—Yuga.

In history, the Soviet Red Army relied on the political commissar system and used the blood of Russian youths to defeat White Russia, the intervention army of the great powers, and the reactionary Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Japan's Northeast Army.Moreover, they also eliminated the Trotskyites who mixed into the revolutionary ranks. This Trotskyites are terrible, more than two-thirds of the Red Army officers are, and they don’t know how the Red Army is with so many traitors. How to defeat the white bandits.What's even more frightening is that after eliminating a large number of Trotskyites, the Soviet Red Army still relied on political commissars who were very amateurish in the military to defeat the Germans who made the whole world tremble. This institutional superiority It is definitely not something that can be described in words. Look at them calling out the blizzard that has never happened in a century.Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu suddenly understood, Ge Laozi, no wonder Laozi encountered an earthquake once in a thousand years and a flood twice in a century. It was his grandmother’s five-year ballot that he never saw. The advantages of the system.

It has to be said that Wang Zhenyu has the shadow of an idealist after all. Although he knows that the party has so many advantages in leading the army, he still refuses to completely turn the youth army into a party-military force.But in fact, the youth army now has all the conditions for party militarization, and Wang Zhenyu still refuses to go against the trend of history.Use Wang Zhenyu's answer to Chen Shao and others who proposed the party's militaryization: "We have no way to predict the future (pretend, others really can't, I'm afraid you will), but if the youth army is completely turned into a party army, then we can be sure of one thing. No matter whether we implement the National Assembly system or not, and allow other political parties to participate in and discuss state affairs, the National Socialist Party will become the only ruling party in perpetuity because it holds the largest armed force, until the absolute revolution caused by its absolute power is completely Rotten until self-destruction. And this is by no means the gospel of the nation, the people, or even the party.”

Chen Shao was very dissatisfied with this: "Then I want to know, who should our army fight for? If we don't turn them into a party army, how can we control their thoughts and ensure their loyalty and combat effectiveness?"

Wang Zhenyu didn't care about Chen Shao's contradictory, but he noticed a dangerous idea represented by Chen Shao.With the prosperity of the revolutionary cause, the brothers who followed him at the beginning began to have different ideas, among them were groups like Chen Shao and Bai Chongxi who were constantly trying to centralize power.These gangsters are obviously shouting to promote themselves as the supreme leader of China, but in fact they are still thinking about the interests of themselves and their small groups. Wang Zhenyu is very dissatisfied with this, so he will not agree to them, which means Put yourself on the fire and roast.

However, the problem Chen Shao mentioned and Wang Zhenyu also realized that it does exist objectively and needs to be resolved urgently.After all, if the military as a group does not guard against the passing of time and strengthen its management, even if it is as strong as the Eight Banners, it will gradually rot under the long-term peace.This is unavoidable even for the U.S. military. The recruitment of U.S. troops in later generations has become a big problem. They have to use green cards to recruit foreigners who aspire to become Americans from China, Puerto Rico and other countries to enter the U.S. military. You must know that the total number of U.S. troops is only 85. million, not as many as North Korea, but their total population is nearly [-] million.Therefore, the U.S. military will bully those dictators who are devoid of conscience and unpopularity, because the cost of this kind of battle is low and the benefits are high.

After much deliberation, Wang Zhenyu decided to establish a political commissar system, but it was different from the political commissar responsibility system of the Soviet Red Army in history.Wang Zhenyu defined military political work as political guidance and propaganda. You can tell from the name of the department he set up, the Political Guidance Department, he didn’t even use his own cronies for the minister, but he used Dai Jitao, a follower of Sun Wen.Dai Jitao was appointed as the head of the Lieutenant General of the Political Guidance Department. The Political Guidance Department is directly subordinate to the Military Commission and is mainly responsible for the military's cultural education and ideological propaganda work. cadre's examination right.It is worth mentioning that Chiang Kai-shek, who had been at loggerheads with Wang Zhenyu, came out under Dai Jitao's persuasion, and served as the deputy director of the Political Guidance Department and the brigadier general director of the Political Guidance Department of the Youth Army Expeditionary Army, which is a typical low-level assignment.

This brigadier general is also Wang Zhenyu's latest big colonel similar to later generations. According to the No. 17 Chairman's Order of the Military Commission of the National Government issued by Wang Zhenyu in the fifth year of the Republic of China, officers of brigadier generals and above (including brigadier generals) in the youth army can enjoy 70 to 1800 years without changing jobs. Retirement treatment at the end of the term of office.So in the youth army, as long as you are a brigadier general, you can be respected as a general, and the monthly salary is [-] Chinese yuan (at this time, the salary of a general worker in the factory is ), this is a job with a lot of face and quite a lot of money oh.

According to the newly signed Order No. 21, the grassroots units of the Political Guidance Department go all the way to the company.The company has a political instructor, the battalion has a political instructor, the regiment has a political commissar, and the division has a director of the political guidance department.

In this way, a three-legged situation has been formed in the Youth Army, first of all, the military chief, and the division commander is directly appointed by the military committee (in the future, it will be appointed by the Ministry of the Army, and this department has not yet been established), and they have military command; The second is the chief of staff, and the chief of staff is directly appointed by the General Staff, who control personnel and logistics; the last is the political guidance department, which controls supervision and political and ideological work.Although the powers of the three departments are not equal, they can barely form a relatively balanced situation in the army, and this is what Wang Zhenyu hopes.

Although the work of the Political Guidance Department cannot achieve the effect of the Soviet Red Army's political commissar responsibility system due to Wang Zhenyu's restrictions, it can also provide mainstream political ideas for the army to a certain extent.In this way, it provides the support of the power of faith for the officers and soldiers, and makes the entire army full of souls.

The office area of ​​the Military Commission in Wuhan is the focus of the entire city's construction. This office area was also designed by Wang Zhenyu himself, and the scale is very grand.Specifically, this office area consists of four buildings.

The outermost two floors are circular, enclosing the entire office area in the form of a large circle and a small circle. The heights of these two floors are 24 meters on the fourth floor and 36 meters on the sixth floor. The width of the building itself is 25 meters. It is 40 meters long, all of which are parking lots, and there are twelve overpasses connecting the two floors. These overpasses later became a good place for officers to chat.

Going inside is an office building like a quadrangle, with a height of 36 meters on six floors and a diameter of 30 meters.The distance from the outer room is a bit large, about 50 meters, and there are only four bridges connecting the first floor with the outer room.In fact, the original purpose of the design of these concrete overpasses was not to facilitate the staff to send documents, but because Wang Zhenyu still attached great importance to his own escape, and he was unwilling to turn the Military Commission into his own prison.The square building in the middle makes the entire office area just in line with the traditional implication of a round sky and a place when viewed from the air, which also makes people who hate Wang Zhenyu nickname the Military Commission a big copper coin.

In the middle of the Sifang Building is an open space with a length of 99 meters and a width of 99 meters. It is designed as a garden, and there is a three-story Chinese-style office building in the middle. This is the core of the entire Military Commission. The Standing Committee Building is located. Both the chairman and vice chairman work here.

The entire office area of ​​the Military Commission is circular, with four six-meter-wide gates, 450 meters in diameter, and a total area of ​​1000 mu.Including the General Staff, Army, Navy, Air Force, Armaments, Gendarmerie Command, Joint Service Department, National Armed Forces Mobilization Department, Military Education Department, Operations Department, Security Command, Railway Corps Command, Military Intelligence Bureau , Military Disciplinary Picket Department and other units will work here.In fact, the peak of office workers in the office area of ​​the Military Commission occurred during World War II, reaching an astonishing 5000 people.