The sun never sets.

"The People's Army is used to fight foreign enemies, not to suppress the people!"

"Chairman Lin, we are not trying to suppress the people, but the problem has become so serious that we need to impose military control."

Wang Qi said: "Take Guangzhou as an example. A police officer once caught a criminal who was stealing. However, those criminals were a gang. When they found out that their accomplices were caught, they dared to resist with weapons, injured the arresting police, and then fled."

"very

Many comrades believe that it is necessary to restart the exile system. "

Five years ago, China stopped the system of large-scale exile of criminals, and the Hong Kong newspapers also contributed to this. Although not as many as tens of millions of people died in the exile process as Bao Zhishan said, the death rate of exiled criminals and their families was very high.

Places like Mobei and Siberia are not suitable for human habitation. People exiled there have no property and may lose their lives before they can adapt to the local environment.

According to rough statistics from relevant departments, the mortality rate of exiles in the first three years was as high as 40%. During the ten years that Lin Yongchang served as President of China, hundreds of thousands of people died in exile.

At that time, the People's Government banned the Hong Kong newspaper written by Xia Jier for a period of time, but because the incident caused widespread discussion, many comrades in the party thought that exile was too much, "one person commits a crime, the whole family is exiled", which is too inhumane. So when Wang Qi became the president of the country, many clauses in the exile system were abolished.

"I remember that you, Chairman Wang, are also against the exile system, right?"

Lin Yongchang knew that the exile system led to the deaths of many people, but he did not think he was wrong and would not regret it. If he had to do it again, he would still make the same choice.

But Wang Qi was different. "Now it seems that abolishing the exile system was a mistake. Now that we have recognized the mistake, we should correct it in a timely manner!"

Chapter 688 Spiral

Wang Qi has been in high positions for more than a decade, serving as either prime minister or chairman. He is no longer the ragtag man of the past, but he still maintains his character of "hating evil as much as he hates it". Now he actually admitted in front of a third party that he had done something wrong before. How can he be a politician? He is still full of the aura of a grassroots person!

Xu Shichang was shocked by this, but when he saw Chairman Lin's smiling face, he put away his shock.

"You are still the same as before. You don't care about anything as long as you think it is right." Lin Yongchang said with a smile: "But have you ever thought about the possibility that: you did nothing wrong before?"

Wang Qi frowned and said, "How could I not have done anything wrong before?"

"Premier Xu, do you think Chairman Wang did something wrong in the past?"

"what?"

Xu Shichang was a typical bureaucrat, smooth-talking and slippery, he just wanted to stand his last shift quietly and never wanted to do anything to offend people. The "people" in "offending people" did not refer to farmers and workers, but to colleagues and other powerful people.

He would never say that Wang Qi had done something wrong before, so he said ambiguously: "The specific situation requires specific analysis. The situation at that time is different from the current situation. I believe Chairman Wang had his own considerations five years ago..."

"See? I dare say that the vast majority of comrades in the party would not say that you did anything wrong in the past."

"but........"

"Don't jump to conclusions. Let's first listen to what our comrades say, what the people say, and conduct a detailed investigation of the current society and class of the Chinese... Alliance. Only then can we make targeted policy adjustments. Don't you agree?"

Wang Qi nodded, "The Chairman is right."

He was more accustomed to accepting orders and handling specific matters, rather than standing at the highest position to make strategic plans. Now that Chairman Lin is back, he can do what he is good at with peace of mind.

"When doing social investigations, it doesn't mean we won't do anything else. We have to do it first, so let's start with rectification and crackdown."

Wang Qi added: “The exile system also needs to be restarted.”

Lin Yongchang glanced at him and said, "Well, let's do it."

During these two years, the city of Chang'an was filled with various opinions. Even if they were all members of the People's Party, it did not mean that their political positions were completely consistent. Some stood on the side of the peasants, some on the side of the workers, and some on the side of the merchants. These could be divided into small family-run merchants and large trust merchants. The majority stood on the side of the cadres.

In the early days of the People's Party, facing pressure from both home and abroad, party members and cadres had to maintain a style of hard work and simplicity in order to concentrate their strength to defeat all reactionaries at home and abroad.

After the war ended and domestic construction began, Lin Yongchang asked party members to be dedicated and work hard for national construction and people's happiness. In ten years, the People's Party launched four rectification movements, started the "First Five-Year Plan" and also started the "Cultural Revolution".

For many years, party members and cadres have not lived comfortably, subject to various supervisions and low salaries. For example, Wang Qi, as chairman, only earns more than 230 yuan a month, which is a bit difficult to support his family in this era of rising prices.

In the big cities along the coast, there are many businessmen with assets of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, which is undoubtedly unreasonable. Some cadres hope to return to the era of ten years ago when everything was managed and controlled by the government, while others hope to completely let go.

This is just one of the most prominent contradictions. The world war brought economic prosperity but also brought about various social problems.

As the political center of the Human Innovation Alliance, Chang'an felt the changes in the situation more than other places.

The debates and struggles here were also the most intense, but all the struggles came to an abrupt end with Chairman Lin’s return.

As the founder of the People's Party, the People's Army and the People's Revolutionary League, and as the supreme leader who has never made a mistake, Lin Yongchang has supreme authority within the alliance, and one word he says is worth ten thousand words from others.

In some remote places, such as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Siberia, Chairman Lin has become the incarnation of a god, or simply the god in the world.

Lin Yongchang knows his own prestige and influence, so he is more cautious in doing things, but he will not be timid because of this. He will just do more investigation and preparation beforehand. This time he returned to Chang'an, not only to solve the various problems that the alliance has encountered in the Asian region, but also to complete the reorganization of government agencies, so that the [People's Revolutionary League] will become a real whole, rather than Europe and Asia playing their own games.

Russia, China and Japan are the three largest parts of the Human Innovation Alliance. Other countries such as Siberia, North Korea, the Philippines, Finland, Mongolia, etc. can only be regarded as embellishments. They are also important, but their importance is definitely not as great as the first three.

Among the three puzzle pieces of Russia, China and Japan, the importance from high to low is China, Russia and Japan. The reason for this ranking is not because Lin Yongchang is Chinese, but because China is the strongest and has the largest population, so it is natural to be the center of the alliance.

Establish the capital in Chang'an, influence Russia and Japan with military, economic and cultural means, and use twenty years of a generation to initially complete the work of "standardizing the writing system and the wheel gauge". This is what Lin Yongchang will do in the next two decades.

The premise for achieving all this is that the economy can maintain high growth. Human beings seek benefits and avoid harm. No matter what is used as "sacred value", people have their own scale in their hearts. If you can't improve people's living standards, it's unreasonable to say anything.

Lin Yongchang is not worried about maintaining economic growth. Technology is the first factor in promoting the development of productivity. At most, he can find more girls and have more children, so that he will have enough points to buy various technologies.

He was not worried about the religious, ethnic and political conflicts within the alliance. He had ready-made homework to copy, and with the [The Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire] system in hand, he was already invincible. As long as he was patient and did not make big mistakes, the [People's Revolutionary League] would inevitably develop faster than other political entities.

Although some pitfalls are bound to happen, and sometimes people even deliberately dig pits for others to step into, that is not a problem. History is an upward spiral. As long as we insist on seeking truth from facts and serving the people, everything else is just a trivial matter.

Chapter 689: Truce

".........To insist on seeking truth from facts, we must acknowledge that there are various problems within the alliance. Contradictions will always exist..."

First-rate politicians can distinguish between the primary and secondary, grasp the main contradictions and solve them; second-rate politicians can cover up the main problems and postpone them to the future; as for politicians, they only care about the interests of themselves and their factions. Lin Yongchang believes that he should be considered a first-rate politician.

"........Adhere to serving the people. In the new era when the war in Europe is about to end, the challenges and problems faced by the People's Party are still severe and complex. Various ideas and phenomena that deviate from the Party's purpose and even infringe on the interests of the masses, such as ideological slackness, complacency, separation from the masses, bureaucracy, formalism, hedonism, and extravagance, still exist; the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development remains prominent..."

"........The People's Party is a party that serves the people wholeheartedly. The road to pursuing the happiness of the people is long and the responsibility we shoulder is heavy. We cannot think that we can rest once and for all in this regard. Only by being firm, persevering and unremitting can we live up to the times and the people..."

After Lin Yongchang returned to Chang'an, he soon published article after article in the People's Daily. Everything was familiar, with a familiar formula. Many people knew what the government would do next after Chairman Lin made a long speech.

Sure enough, every two months, a vigorous "rectification movement" began. Lin Yongchang reiterated that the main purpose of the "rectification movement" was to "punish past mistakes and prevent future ones, cure the disease and save people", and the best thing was "not to kill anyone and not to arrest most people".

During the rectification movement, Lin Yongchang met with many cadres and the masses, and repeatedly declared that "rectification" was not "punishing people." For those cadres who could take the initiative to confess their problems, they should be given a chance to correct them and their work should be reassigned.

This is both out of love for comrades and cold calculation. "It is not easy for the party and the country to train a cadre" is not just a joke, but a fact.

The alliance is not only short of scientists, engineers and technical workers, but also of management talents. First-class management talents are as rare as first-class scientists, if not more precious.

In order to reduce the gap between the European and Asian parts of the alliance, Lin Yongchang transferred a number of Russian comrades to Chang'an to serve, and asked Stalin, Bukharin and others to serve as investigators of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary League to tour various places, report illegalities, and investigate the political ecology and economic conditions in Asia.

Similarly, the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary League also transferred a number of cadres from China to Moscow.

As for the former Bolshevik high-level officials, except Lenin and Trotsky, Lin Yongchang arranged jobs for most of them. Bukharin was well-versed in political theory and economic principles, and Stalin was a cold... Well, Stalin at that time was not that cold, but an energetic workaholic.

According to the reports of the comrades who investigated Stalin, Comrade Joseph seemed to have some small actions in private, but after being transferred to Asia, the daily work was enough to overwhelm him, and even if he had any ideas, he probably couldn't use them.

If this does not work, then Stalin will have to accompany Comrade Trotsky.

Lin Yongchang was in charge of Chang'an, and the accumulated problems were solved one by one. The problems and discrepancies in the data were all displayed on the [The Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire] system. Therefore, he was able to use limited resources in the most needed areas, and administrative efficiency increased several times.

Administration, like military and diplomacy, has costs. Chairman Lin is able to handle everything well while saving administrative costs. This ability - actually the credit of the plug-in - is unmatched even by mentors and teachers.

Soon, the phrase "Chairman Lin is watching you" became popular among cadres again.

While Lin Yongchang was busy dealing with various matters and patrolling around in Asia, the war in Europe was coming to an end. After the Allies and the French Commune ended the war, Britain and the United States could no longer fight. Although the British Empire's fleet still blocked the German High Seas Fleet in the port and sank many German submarines with the help of the US Navy, the German submarine war still caused heavy losses to Britain.

At one point, Britain lost 60 tons of ships each month. Even with the aid of the United States, the British Isles still fell into famine. After the French Commune withdrew from the war, the US government stopped providing supplies to Britain and suspended US dollar loans in order to stop the losses.

The British and American armies were unable to penetrate the German mainland on land, and the German navy was unable to defeat the Allied naval fleet. Continuing to fight would only result in mutual losses.

At the end of February 1916, German and British diplomats met again in the Netherlands to negotiate an armistice.

The Central Powers were drained of their vitality in the World War and urgently needed to make a fortune from the Allied Powers to make up for it. However, the Central Powers could not even force the French Commune to pay war reparations. What could they do to Britain and the United States?

Because of the large number of US troops stationed in Italy, the German-Austrian coalition forces were unable to put more pressure on the Italian government.

There is a saying in the Western world: Truth is only within the range of cannons. Where cannons cannot reach, there is no truth, and it is impossible to get war reparations.

After nearly a month of negotiations, the Central Powers and the Entente reached a peace agreement. Neither Britain nor the United States paid any price, and the same was true for the Central Powers. In layman's terms, it was a "white peace."

Germany did not gain anything, but returned the overseas colonies it had previously obtained from the French Commune to the National France. The French Commune was backed by the [Human Revolutionary League], and the National France was a member of the Allied Powers. Germany could only swallow its anger and the bitter fruit it received, and gained a "bitter peace".

After the news broke, large-scale protests broke out on the Allied side, and riots broke out in London, Philips, New York and Washington. Especially in New York and Washington, angry people took to the streets, smashed shops, burned cars, held up banners and shouted slogans, and then were suppressed by the army.

There were also protests on the Central Powers side. Unlike the Allied Powers, people in Berlin and Frankfurt were not protesting for unconditional peace, but for food. Their slogan was "anti-hunger."

Both the Allies and the Central Powers were very dissatisfied with the outcome of the war. On the day the treaty was signed, someone predicted, "This is not the end of the war, but a 20-year armistice!"

Maybe, who knows.

Chapter 690 Winner

After the war, all the powerful countries in the world felt that they had lost out. France was divided into two, becoming the French Commune and the National France. The United States spent so much money and so many people died in the expedition, but got nothing. It cannot be said that it got nothing, as it made a lot of money in the early stage, but it lost it all in the later stage.

The British Empire spent more money and lost more people, but the result was "white peace". The current Prime Minister and cabinet are already shaky and will soon fall. Other countries such as Italy, Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey are on the verge of collapse and are just a little bit away from being finished.

What about China? Isn't China making a lot of money?

China made a lot of money, but after joining the Human Innovation Alliance, it spent too many resources to clean up the mess in Russia. In the later period, it mobilized three million troops and went to Russia to fight thousands of miles away. Not only did it spend all the money in the Ministry of Finance, but the Chinese government also had to issue two bonds to fill the hole.

Fortunately, the People's Army only made some efforts to quell the civil unrest in Russia and did not actually participate in the world war. Otherwise, it would have to follow the example of the United States and shift its economy to a wartime system.

Russia went to war to collect spoils and pay off debts

In a sense, the Russians have achieved their goal. Now Russia has no debts. All debts have been taken over by the Human Innovation Alliance.

Is Russia the ultimate winner of this world war?

Not really. Although Russia has no foreign debt, its economy has been completely penetrated by China. Now it is tied to the chariot of the People's Revolutionary League and has no chance of getting off. The vast majority of Russians are in favor of joining the People's Revolutionary League because their living standards have been significantly improved.

It’s not that the People’s Revolutionary League did a great job. In just two years, not much could have changed. The reason why most people in Russia felt that their lives had improved was because the previous Tsarist government did a terrible job. The People’s Revolutionary League eliminated the two major classes of nobles and clergy, reduced the profit of middlemen, and coupled with the influx of a large number of cheap Chinese goods, Russians felt that their lives had suddenly improved.

In fact, the labor surplus obtained by the [People's Revolutionary League] from the peasants and workers far exceeded that of the Tsarist Russian government. The [Human Reform League] government took the lion's share, and the people only got a little soup.

The People's Revolutionary League extracted surplus value and used it to build roads and infrastructure, as well as to develop industrial and agricultural production. So in just two years, Russia's agriculture had recovered to 90% of its pre-war level, and its industrial output value had reached 1.2 times that of the pre-war level.

Although the Human Revolutionary Union has done so many things, there are still some Russians who are very indignant. They believe that the so-called Human Revolutionary Union is just a cover, and in reality China has annexed Russia, just like it had annexed North Korea and Japan before.

This is not too far-fetched. Lin Yongchang promoted Chinese throughout the alliance, and a lot of technical materials were written in Chinese. The Russian language and culture were suppressed to some extent and became the second language within the alliance.

Those who opposed the Human Reform Alliance were mainly big businessmen and nobles, as well as officials in villages, towns and countryside. Their interests were harmed, so they naturally stood on the opposition side.

This makes sense. Even if it is a bird in a tree, it will scream if its nest is overturned. What about humans?

Russia mobilized more than 1500 million people in the world war, and the casualties, prisoners and missing were about 900 million. Compared with previous wars, this casualty is too heavy. But if it is placed in the world war, it seems acceptable. The Tsarist Russia did not lose a generation in the war, but it also lost too many young and strong people, so that Russia is now short of strong labor everywhere, and has to transfer a large number of workers and peasants from China to Russia.

Russia is not the ultimate winner of the World War. After all, it turns out that Japan benefited the most from the World War. Some Japanese think so, while others think otherwise.

In general, the Human Innovation Alliance gained the most, followed by the United States, while the other participating countries all suffered losses. Because they failed to completely defeat their opponents, neither the Allies nor the Central Powers could survive by eating the enemy's corpses. Germany and Britain experienced varying degrees of turmoil after the war.

In Germany, the army of tens of millions was quickly reduced to only one million. Many soldiers who returned to society could not find jobs, and they also acquired drug addiction debuffs during the war, which caused many vicious incidents in society.

At the same time, Ludendorff, who had just led Germany to victory in the world war with great difficulty, was impeached. Hindenburg and Tirpitz publicly stated in the Imperial Parliament that Ludendorff had secretly colluded with the People's Revolutionary League, which led to significant losses of Germany's interests.

Ludendorff was able to become Chief of the General Staff with the support of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Moltke the Younger. Now Moltke the Younger has passed away due to illness, and Wilhelm II has long been dissatisfied with Ludendorff, so his position has become precarious.

The Human Revolutionary League threatened Germany with war in the final stages of the World War - there was no direct threat, but the mobilization of the army itself was a threat - which forced Germany to abandon its plan to crush the French Commune. Although there were many other considerations, on the surface, it was the military mobilization of the Human Revolutionary League that prevented Germany from obtaining a large amount of spoils from France.

Hindenburg and Tirpitz seized on this point and attacked Ludendorff. Facing the accusation, Ludendorff refuted it point by point, but even if he had the eloquence of Demosthenes, what could he do?

Even though he won the debate against Hindenburg, he could only resign from the post of Chief of the General Staff and go home to write his memoirs in despair. But he was also a Junker, so he didn't have to worry about his personal safety or his livelihood.

Hindenburg became the new Chief of the General Staff as he wished, and then began his governance of Germany. Germany is a militaristic country. In theory, the Prime Minister is the head of government, but the Chief of the General Staff is the most powerful person.

The new German government adopted a high-pressure policy at home, suppressed various domestic movements and thoughts, and worked hard to restore production, barely maintaining the normal operation of the country. As long as the most difficult times are over, Germany will be better in the future... right?

Chapter 691 Explosion

Ludendorff returned home frustrated and told his wife about what happened today.

What happened. He didn't rant, but just felt powerless and lost interest in everything. Like many Junkers, he had devoted his life to the army. Now that he was deprived of his military position, what else could he do? Would he really go home and write his memoirs?

In fact, he may have a chance to turn defeat into victory. There are many generals and officers in the army who support him, more than Hindenburg. As for Tirpitz, the stain of the Kiel Harbor sailors' mutiny alone is enough to defeat him.

But Ludendorff did not fight back, but obeyed the Emperor's wishes and took the initiative to resign from the post of Chief of the General Staff. When he was the Chief of the General Staff, he did a lot of arbitrary things and almost sidelined William II.

He once forced the Austro-Hungarian army to accept the unified command of Germany, and further proposed to reorganize the political structure of Austria and the Habsburg dynasty in order to strengthen Germany's influence on Austrian political affairs; he also forcefully implemented a strict rationing system in the country, forcing Prime Minister Bethmann to agree to unrestricted submarine warfare and causing Prime Minister Bethmann to resign.

Ludendorff, who did so many things, was actually in the position of a dictator in Germany. His actions represented the opinions of a large number of German generals and officers and were warmly welcomed by most of the Junker officer corps. He also led Germany to win the world war.

What would happen if he didn't resign?

So, no matter how reluctant Ludendorff was, he had to leave the army.