Back to the Republic of China as a commander

After a while, Wang Zhenyu said: "I'm thinking of some things to do this year, but it's a pity that Ma Xicheng has to go back to Baoqing for the New Year. By the way, Delin, this year's youth army will be upgraded. We need to follow up. In addition, I also want to hear your opinion on this reform of the Military Commission.”

Li Zongren knew that this was actually a test for himself. He thought calmly and said: "My opinion is that some repairs should be made to the original plan. The current plan is to set up the Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy outside the General Staff Headquarters." The Department of Political Guidance, the Ministry of Military Education, the Gendarmerie Command, the National Armed Forces Mobilization Department, the Combat Training Department, the Security Command, the Railway Corps Command, the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the Military Disciplinary Department ( Including picket corps and court-martial) and other nine second-level departments. According to my experience, I personally think that the General Staff Department, Armament Department, and National Armed Forces Mobilization Department should be established as first-level departments. The Army Department, Navy Department, and Air Force Department Instead of setting up a separate ministry, set up a unified Ministry of Defense. The four major ministries are all under the Military Commission, and the Ministry of National Defense should be under the name of the Nationalist Government at the same time, but the office is still in Wuhan."

Wang Zhenyu thought for a while and interrupted: "Then what is the difference between the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff?"

Li Zongren said: "To put it simply, if you want to call, ask the Ministry of National Defense, how to call the General Staff!"

Wang Zhenyu's thinking immediately became clear, and Li Zongren's meaning could not be more clear, that is, through the establishment of the Ministry of National Defense to achieve two goals, the first is to decentralize part of the power of the General Staff, so that the Military Commission can walk on two legs up.The second is to ease the tense relationship between the Military Council and the Nationalist Government. At least there is a military department under the establishment of the Nationalist Government, which looks like that.

Wang Zhenyu took a sip of the good oolong tea and said: "Delin, don't hide it, it's all my family, show your plan."

Li Zongren naturally talked eloquently: "Once the Ministry of National Defense is established, the ministries under the name of the Military Commission will be divided into three levels. The first-level departments are the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense. I think the No. [-] chief of the department can be determined." The rank of general. The military directors of all combat units of the Youth Army are appointed by the Ministry of National Defense, and the Chief of Staff is appointed by the General Staff. Chiefs, military chiefs, and political chiefs rely on the system to control the army. Whoever is the commander of the army, the division commander cannot do things on his own. The second-level departments are mainly the Ministry of Armaments and the National Armed Forces Mobilization Department. They are responsible for military production and Logistics support, a department responsible for recruits and the national mobilization system are very important. The head of the department suggested setting it at the level of lieutenant general. The leader of this second-level department is naturally a member of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission. As for the third-level department, Including the Political Guidance Department, Railway Command, Security Command, Military Intelligence Bureau, Military Education Department, Gendarmerie Command, Combat Training Department, and Military Discipline Department (including pickets and military courts), these departments are all auxiliary departments. The chief officer can roughly be designated as lieutenant general or major general according to the situation, and can also set up an independent military rank system within the scope of his own system. The chief officer will not join the standing committee, but the members of the military committee still have to give it. After all, the commanders of the provincial military regions are all Members of the Military Commission. As for the division, my opinion is to reorganize it according to the standards of the current expeditionary force. In addition to the two infantry brigades (four infantry regiments), there are four regiments under the jurisdiction of the supply, special agents, artillery, and engineers. Sanitation, Communications, military law, and staff offices."

Wang Zhenyu was very pleased with Li Zongren, his future brother-in-law. He had always been worried about whether there would be a problem of overpowering Li Zongren. Now it seems that Li Zongren's political talent exists.At least judging from this plan, his thinking became clearer and became a reality.

"Delin, I think this plan is okay. You can revise it and improve it. You will propose it in public at the first plenary meeting of the Military Commission after the year. I will support it..."

After talking with Li Zongren, Wang Zhenyu looked at Ye Guowei who had been sitting cautiously beside him.Seeing Ye Guowei and Wang Zhenyu made me want to laugh. As the saying goes, it is easy to change the nature of the country, but Ye Guowei's arrogance and domineering of the rich second generation is a kind of nature from the bottom of his heart.And after Wang Zhenyu broke through the air and traveled across the world, Ye Guowei was upgraded to the second generation of officials.In this way, a standard version of the bully was born.It's a pity that he met Wang Zhenyu, a brother-in-law who suffered unfair treatment in later generations and was jealous of evil, so Ye Guowei was tragic.

Can you imagine Ye Guowei being kidnapped and sent to Jingzhou to work as a railway worker?In Ye Guowei’s eyes, in front of those coolies who were no different from barbarians, all Ye Guowei’s pride disappeared. Not only did he not work, he would not only have no food, but he would also be beaten by his coworkers, and he would be placed next to the urine bucket when he slept. .And in the end, I was almost sodomized by a pervert. If it weren't for the special agents in charge of guarding, even if they arrived and shot him, Ye Guowei would never commit suicide in his life.

Perhaps the lesson this time was too painful. Ye Guowei's behavior has changed drastically, and he has become very extreme. He used to like to play with women, but now he sees women like a mouse seeing a cat. He hasn't even talked about a girlfriend for two years.And when something happens, as long as he thinks of his terrifying brother-in-law, he basically chooses to calm down.

If he can see his brother-in-law, then this kid will never show his face.As for the unavoidable ones like today, they also sat down in a well-behaved manner, pretending to be obedient and listening to the lesson, which made Wang Zhenyu angry and funny when he saw it.

"Guowei, you are almost [-], it's time to find someone. I heard from your sister that you passed the Wuhan University and studied hard. How about working for my brother-in-law and me after graduation?"

Ye Guowei nodded quickly and said: "Thank you brother-in-law, Guowei must work hard, thank you brother-in-law..."

Chapter 327 New Year (V)

The conversation ended after Wang Zhenkun and Wang Zhenbang came in, and the family banquet began after everyone arrived.

Everyone toasted and blessed each other, and the lively family banquet was filled with the warmth of family affection.In the middle of the meal, Wang Zhenyu's mother, Wang Chen, suddenly said without thinking: "I don't know how the fourth child and his wife are doing in Europe?"

After hearing this, Wang Longxian lost his face and said: "I told you to eat more and talk less, but you are still talking nonsense here, what is the fourth child, I am not such a rebellious son."

As soon as this remark came out, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became awkward.

For Wang Zhenyu, as a father, Wang Longxian feels very contradictory.On the one hand, the son is promising, he has gained face for himself, and he has honored the Wang family.But on the other hand, with such a powerful son, Wang Longxian's paternity immediately became empty.In terms of marriage alone, apart from the marriage between the eldest and the second child, starting from Wang Zhenyu, his children were able to get a job and get married. Has anyone ever asked me about being a father?

Wang Zhenpeng even skipped the basic procedures for getting married. Because of the support of the third child, he dared to take people to travel to Europe to get married after losing his temper.The more Wang Long thought about it, the angrier he became. After drinking these cups of yellow soup, he naturally took the opportunity to vent his anger.

How could Wang Zhenyu not know what his father was thinking, he had nothing to say, he could only open his mouth and said: "Brother, you start, we brothers toast to father, wish father good luck, prosperity and prolong the year."

Finally, he found some dignity as a father, and Wang Longxian, who gained face, naturally turned his anger into joy, and a turmoil was invisible. . .

The New Year of 1917 was the first New Year after the founding of the Nationalist Government. Wang Longzhong, acting chairman of the Nationalist Government, issued an order to hold grand fireworks displays in Nanjing and Wuhan to celebrate.While Wang Zhenyu and his family ran to the banks of the Yangtze River to watch the fireworks show, they spent an extremely luxurious New Year, and the special products from all over the place piled up the Wenlu.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many military and political leaders in Nanjing and Wuhan came to visit their homes to pay New Year’s greetings. Experts in the northern military and political circles, and business people from all over the world also sent telegrams to pay New Year’s greetings. You must know that telegrams in this era are very expensive, 40 yuan. One word, just the four words "Happy New Year" is equivalent to a battalion commander's salary for a month, not counting the attributives in front and the inscriptions in the back.

After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force began to return one after another, and all troops were required to gather in Shanghai and Guangzhou.Although they are full of doubts about the actual combat effectiveness of the Chinese, after receiving the report from the French military training group, the governments of Britain and France expressed great enthusiasm and hope for this expeditionary force.In the case of very tight transportation capacity, they tried every means to collect ships from the colonies to transport this army.Fortunately, according to the plan of the Allied Powers, the weapons of this huge army will be deployed in France. Otherwise, with the current shipping capacity of Britain and France in the Far East, it is impossible to transport 24 expeditionary troops from distant China to France within a month. task.You must know that in addition to the expeditionary force, Britain and France also need a large amount of tung oil, pig temples and rare metals produced in China.

This European war really emptied the wealth that the British had spent centuries accumulating with great difficulty, and used it for not making sufficient preparations for the war before the outbreak of the war. As a result, after the outbreak of the war, the British military operations It becomes a waste of money.In order to win this war, the original world's number one creditor began to march toward the world's number one debtor country.The death of young people in France and the money spent in Britain are the truest portrayal of the cruelty of World War I.

Judging from the final results, the British who defeated the Germans failed to get rid of the fate of falling behind in their hegemony, even because the war accelerated the process.The post-war colonial independence movement intensified, and the face of the British paper tiger became more and more clear.

If the Revolution of [-] changed the direction of Chinese history, then the First World War changed the direction of the entire world history.

The dominance of the Manchu Eight Banners collapsed overnight after the Revolution of [-], and relying on the superiority of the communist system, the British also had to go downhill after the First World War.

The far-sighted British politicians have already seen this, so they all advocated providing [-] million pounds to China in exchange for China's sending troops to consume the Germans.Such a move has two advantages. The first is to prevent the British boy from shedding more blood in France, and the second is to further accelerate the rise of the Nationalist Government in southern China through this loan.Britain's expansion in Asia has reached its limit, and they suddenly found that Japan, an ally they had fostered in the past to deal with Russia, a barbaric and greedy polar bear, seemed to be getting more and more uncontrollable, and more and more courageous, and began to continue Erosion of imperial interests in Asia, especially British interests in China.

Now it only needs to spend 3 million pounds to stop the expansion of these hateful oriental dwarfs in China. For the British, this deal is really a bargain.British politicians were even secretly proud of this for a while, thinking that those yellow-skinned pigs in the East were really easy to deceive.

Zhu Erdian, the British Minister to China who has always advocated weakening China, was reprimanded by the British Whitehall for this. However, Zhu Erdian still insists that compared with Japan, which is currently eager to try, a powerful China is more difficult to control and more likely to threaten the British Empire. Interests in the Asian region.In contrast, although the Japanese gang of dwarfs are arrogant and hateful, there are still many ways to control and suppress them.

Zhu Erdian's report was intercepted by the Telecom Bureau of the Military Commission led by Wang Huaishi, and it was translated word by word and placed on Wang Zhenyu's desk.Wang Zhenyu looked at it hastily, but he was not angry. He even felt that Zhu Erdian was a very respectable opponent.

With the continuation of the division between the North and the South, the probability of war between the North and the South has become lower and lower, and the youth army has also begun a large-scale compression. Although none of the officers has been reduced, this also means that the promotion of the youth army has begun to become more difficult. geometric growth.And young people are always restless, so more and more officers apply to join the European Expeditionary Force.This phenomenon makes Wang Zhenyu very satisfied, at least it shows that in a peaceful environment, his army still maintains enough vigor and enterprising spirit.So an idea of ​​conducting rounds of battles against young army officers and soldiers based on the expeditionary force came out. . .

After the new year, Hu Hanmin took the lead, and the backbones of the Tongmenghui asked for the election of the second official chairman of the Nationalist Government.At the same time, the proposal to reorganize the National Congress, the Nanjing National Government, and the Wuhan National Military Commission was also put on the table for final discussion and voting.If there is no accident, these things will be approved by the last National Assembly along with the "Constitution of the National Government", "Organization Law of the Senate and Legislative Yuan", "Organization Law of the National Government Military Committee", and "National Government Election Law".

In addition to the major controversy over the position of Chairman of the Nationalist Government, the positions of other bigwigs have also made important arrangements that are acceptable to all parties:

Chairman of the National Government: Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong, Vice-Chairmen: Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Taiyan.

Speaker of the Senate: Liang Qichao, Speaker of the Legislative Yuan: Hu Hanmin, Prime Minister of the Administration Council: Xiong Xiling Members of the Presidium of the National Government: Sun Wen, Wang Longzhong, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Taiyan, Liang Qichao, Hu Hanmin, Xiong Xiling.

Departments of the reorganized Government Affairs Council:

Deputy Prime Ministers of the Government Administration Council: Ye Zuwen (in charge of finance, transportation, and commerce), Zhou Zhiyun (in charge of industry, land resources, agriculture and forestry), Cheng Dequan (in charge of labor, education, health), Tan Yankai (in charge of urban construction, public security, and justice) and Tang Shaoyi, secretary-general of the Council of Government Affairs.

List of members of the Political Committee: Xiong Xiling, Ye Zuwen, Zhou Zhiyun, Cheng Dequan, Tan Yankai, Xu Chongzhi, Hao Bing, Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Jingjiang, Liao Zhongkai, Wang Zhengting, Zhang Jian, Cai Yuanpei.

Department: Zhang Jingjiang, Chairman of the Joint Reserve Management Committee of the Bank of China (Although Zhang Jingjiang has repeatedly opposed the establishment of this institution, Wang Zhenyu still feels that it is safest to let the valuable Zhang Jingjiang manage this institution, so he interviewed Zhang Jingjiang for a week , repeatedly expounded the stakes in it, and finally persuaded Zhang Jingjiang to take up the position on the grounds that not supervising it would be letting its harm be allowed to take over).

Minister of Finance: Liao Zhongkai, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Wang Zhengting, Minister of National Defense: Xu Chongzhi, Minister of Commerce: Zhang Jian, Minister of Justice: Xu Qian, Minister of Public Security: Hao Bing, Minister of Communications: Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Industry : Tan Kah Kee, Minister of Land and Resources: Tan Yankai, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry: Lin Sen, Minister of Labor: Wang Jingwei, Minister of Health: Xie Chi, Minister of Education: Cai Yuanpei.

Governor of Hunan Province Tan Renfeng Governor of Hubei Province Yang Yongtai Governor of Guangxi Province Wang Zhixiang Governor of Fujian Province Sa Zhenbing (part-time) Governor of Jiangsu Province Juzheng Governor of Zhejiang Province Zhu Rui Governor of Anhui Province Chen Yi Governor of Guangdong Province Cen Chunxuan Governor of Jiangxi Province Mayor of Shanghai Liu Hongsheng Mayor of Nanjing Yu Youren Mayor of Wuhan Wang Zhenbang Members of the National Government Military Committee:

Chairman: Wang Zhenyu Vice-chairman: Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong (Chairman of the National Government), Xu Chongzhi (in charge of the Ministry of National Defense), Wan Yaohuang (in charge of the General Staff), Secretary-General Zhao Hengti Standing Committee: Wang Zhenyu, Sun Wen/Wang Longzhong, Xu Chongzhi, Wan Yaohuang, Ma Xicheng, Li Zongren, Xu Yuanquan, Zhao Hengti, Xiong Kewu.

First level department:

Minister of Defense: General Xu Chongzhi; Chief of the General Staff: General Wan Yaohuang;

Minister of Armament Department of the Secondary Department: General Ma Xicheng; Minister of Armed Mobilization Department: General Li Zongren.

Minister of the Army Department of the Third Level Department: Lieutenant General Li Liejun, Minister of the Navy: Admiral Sa Zhenbing, Minister of the Air Force: Major General Yang Yixian, Director of the Political Guidance Department: Major General Dai Jitao, Commander of the Railway Command: Lieutenant General Song Xianfu, Commander of the Security Command: Lieutenant General Hao Bing, Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau: Lieutenant General He Jian, Minister of Military Education: Lieutenant General Zhu Zhixin, Commander of the Gendarmerie Command: Lieutenant General Yang Wangui, Director of the Combat Training Department: General Xu Yuanquan, Director of the Military Disciplinary Department: Lieutenant General Cheng Qian, Commander of the Engineering Corps Commander: Lieutenant General Hu Lichun, Commander of Artillery Command: Lieutenant General Zeng Jiwu.

In the end, various factions within the National Socialist Party reached a compromise before the votes of the two chambers in early March. Sun Wen was promoted to the throne of the Nationalist Government Chairman, while Wang Longzhong continued to serve as the first vice chairman and chairman of the National Socialist Party.In exchange, this list was finally approved, and Zhang Taiyan served as the president of the newly formed Supervisory Yuan and the chairman of the Civil Affairs Committee of the two houses.The national government finally got on the right track legally. . .

Chapter 328 Expeditionary Army

We don't know whether the expeditionary force was closely watched by the 150 million compatriots, but it is absolutely true that they were watched by the more than [-] million Chinese laborers who participated in the war.From France to Britain, almost every Chinese laborer cheered for the arrival of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

These Chinese laborers have been drifting thousands of miles from various parts of China to the war-torn European continent since July last year. According to Wang Zhenyu's original idea, the scale is about 100 million people, and they will probably get 6000 million pounds per head from Britain and France. Forget about the benefit fee.Unexpectedly, the grandson of Hu Hanmin had even worse hands. This number directly increased by 50% to 150 million. As a result, the intermediary fee was 3000 million pounds more.

With the expansion of Europe, even women have entered the factories, supporting the war with half the wages of men.The wages of these hard-working Chinese workers are only a quarter of the wages of an adult British worker, and they are docile and obedient, and they can do whatever they are asked to do.

By the end of the European War, the final number of these laborers had reached a staggering 230 million. In fact, the total number of laborers exported from China was far more than this number. Some of them were privately employed, and some of them ended up missing their homes due to illness and other reasons on the way. Those who did not reach Europe, many of these people were scattered in Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions.Of the 230 million laborers who reached Europe, about 200 million returned to China after the war, while 20 who did not return chose to stay in Europe, and [-] left the world due to war, disease and other reasons.

In addition to intermediary fees, these laborers finally brought back nearly 30 billion pounds in foreign exchange income for China in more than two years. This money laid a solid economic foundation for the rise of Chinese industry.Moreover, about 40 of them became military workers and skilled workers in the civilian manufacturing field, who cultivated the backbone for the development of China's industry.For this reason, the national government later passed a motion to build a special museum for Chinese laborers who participated in World War I to commemorate.Shao Piaoping, the top gunner in the newspaper industry, wrote an article in the report sarcastically: "It was the shameless national government who sold these laborers to Europe like human traffickers, and now they have the nerve to come out and commemorate them?"

The last unit of the first expeditionary force to arrive was the Ninth Division commanded by Zhou Zhengming. They arrived in Marseille on March 3. At this time, France was shrouded in a cloud. After the brutal Battle of Verdun, 23 In December of 1916, the Allied forces suffered an unprecedented blow in the Battle of the Somme.The Battle of the Somme was a typical trench warfare in the First World War with extremely heavy casualties on both sides.Whether it is the troops and weapons invested by both sides, it is the most in this war.The British army had 12 divisions in combat, the French army had 54 divisions, and the German army had 32 divisions.At the end of the battle, the British and French allied forces suffered 67 casualties, but failed to break through the German defenses, advancing only 79-4 kilometers.The Germans lost 5 men.Although Germany lost 12 square kilometers of trench positions, it successfully blocked the strategic plan of the Allies.However, the victory of the Allied Powers on the Southwest Front still gradually shifted the dominance of the battle from Germany to the Allied Powers.

On the first day of the battle alone, the British alone suffered huge casualties of 6, which is almost unimaginable. You must know that the total number of British expeditionary forces in France was only 50.The battle was not without bright spots, at least the tank that Wang Zhenyu had been looking forward to finally appeared, and it played a great role in the advancement of the British and French troops.But for the French, it is not at all worthy of joy. On the one hand, they have many more widows and girls who need men to comfort them. On the other hand, their wounds have further expanded. Forced to resign due to excessive casualties.

However, compared to Xiafei, Fuxi was much luckier. The one who advocated the attack was relegated to the position of director of the Military Research Center. In fact, he was responsible for coordinating the cooperation between the allied forces.So now it's his turn to point fingers at Bai Chongxi, the commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. . .