Chapter 902: The Army Goes First
When China was competing for the last piece of territory in Australia and causing reconciliation between the United States and Japan, Meng Xiang had already realized that China was rising too quickly and was about to be hit by those old empires.
Just like bullying, new and old forces always have to fight for the sake of interests to recognize that the strength of the latecomers is enough to sit on the same dining table with them...
The United States, Germany and others have survived from similar attacks, and China is not afraid of similar suppression now.
It’s a pity that this world war happened. It was during the meal that some suppression became distorted, and even China’s response had to change.
Really, Meng Xiang is not afraid of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Japanese joining forces, but he hopes that their joint attack will be delayed. At this moment, Britain and France don’t care about Asia. Whoever can grab a big meal is who. If you only care about fighting, you might be really cheaper.
Americans will not easily be fooled by the British instigation, but if China is too strong, Americans do not mind being suppressed in advance.
Huaxia doesn't care about general suppression. But Huaxia's current industrial foundation has been consolidated and is in the stage of improvement. The many machines and technologies I have purchased recently have not been guided by foreign technicians. It has really been a long time to rely on Huaxia to explore on its own. Some high-level technologies still need someone to lead the way.
Although China still has the Germans, it is easier to improve by learning from others' strengths.
Besides, Meng Xiang has no intention of pushing the opponent. If he can use more strength to fight the opponent, he will never miss this opportunity to benefit. At least Meng Xiang still feels a little regretful now. Even though he has pushed the hands for a long time, things are always unexpected. The damage from the United States and Japan has not yet reached his ideal level. Why not make the result more ideal?
After grasping part of the bottom line between Britain and the United States by cloning spies against the will of heaven, Meng Xiang naturally made a low-key transition plan, showing the enemy as weak and preparing to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.
In the domestic situation, there is no need to clone spies, but simply the control of loyal clone soldiers. As well as the ordinary direct lineages cultivated over the years, Meng Xiang is enough to control the overall situation. Even in the parliament, there will be no such situation of being forced to do so.
This is just like the actions of the Chinese army in the north. It is just Meng Xiang's layout.
Since it is democratic, Meng Xiang doesn't mind setting off some democratic atmosphere. The entire army and the entire country's money bags are under the control of Meng Xiang. So what if you give others some democratic speaking power? What's more, as the outside world speculates, the military expenditure issue has indeed made Meng Xiang very troubled.
With the base to produce most of the weapons, Meng Xiang was not too worried.
To his headache, as some situations of military expenses became public, he needed some excuses to explain the source of numerous weapons expenses.
A fool like paying out of his own pocket to make a country can be fooled in a short time, but after a long time, few people believe it. The money of that family cannot support such a long time.
Especially with the mechanization process of the China Defense Forces, such expenses are even more shocking.
Meng Xiang didn't want to be too evil. Even if there were cloned soldiers who were in charge of financial power and blocking those secrets, people in the world were not all fools and always had doubts. This required some reasonable means.
It slightly shifted to the national finances, but it almost crushed the national finances.
As some of the military's expenses turn to finance, especially the huge military pay and various military welfare benefits gradually shifted, the pressure fell on the national finance.
Meng Xiang almost exempted most of the agricultural tax burden from the beginning. Coupled with policies such as support and exemption for industry and commerce, the national fiscal revenue did not increase too much with the improvement of the economy. On the one hand, free compulsory education, part of medical subsidies, and the construction of public facilities everywhere made the finances empty.
The salary of millions of people and the number of generous benefits and benefits in wartime is no longer a straw, but a mountain.
Although the payment is made by the newly issued credit currency of the state and can be printed directly from the printing press, it is not uncontrollable and over-issuance caused inflation. With the integration of the national financial system, this behavior is no less than drinking poison to quench thirst.
If we add weapons expenses that take up a large part of the total and other costs of military construction, it will definitely be a despair that many people look up to throughout their lives.
Of course, the numbers piled up by these gold mountains also mean huge benefits to some people.
The attacks of Lao Jiang and others also meant to spread the military expenditure and share some of them.
Meng Xiang followed the flow but chose to make disarmament arrangements according to the wishes of many of them.
This is disarmament, not the other.
A group of soldiers put down their weapons and became engineers, but they were still soldiers. However, the reduction was quite considerable.
The army is very expensive when fighting, and even during training, various subsidies and losses are quite high. With two million troops not on the battlefield, the reduction in training will save enough money to slow down the finances. Moreover, China also needs them to take on the important task of building a corps.
When Siberia was developed, many people were still interested in becoming immigrants under the attractiveness of preferential policies. However, with the stability of the country and the development of the economy, the idea that the people's hometowns are hard to leave. Where can those remote areas compare with their increasingly prosperous hometowns? To be honest, the small counties in some areas are also more prosperous than the cities in Siberia.
For hundreds of years, the Chinese people's adventure and development genes have long been silent, and Xiaofu Ze'an's thoughts have occupied the mainstream.
This has also led to the decrease in the number of people voluntarily immigrating in China.
But this kind of thing is not effective by coercive means. Otherwise, the Russians would not run back to Europe in large numbers from the north, resulting in a large number of empty-nest towns in Siberia.
This rich place in Australia does not require much encouragement to raise one hundred million immigrants, but some places in the north and South China have indeed had a very harsh environment.
Of course, there are many paradises in Central Asia, Southeast Asia and even Siberia, but people have already preconceived ideas. Even if public opinion is widely publicized and aroused, it is difficult to encourage people to do it actively and need to be influenced slowly.
But Meng Xiang lacks enough time.
It’s better to say that the North, which has immigrated 10 million, are still unstable in Central Asia and the Southeast Asia currently under the control of China.
It is insufficient to rely solely on the army to suppress all the civil resistance consciousness with the advantage of China's large population, and to turn those places into China's home courts. Even Taiwan, North Korea and other places also need immigrants mixed with the mainland of China to influence the ideological consciousness of the entire region.
The painting on a piece of white paper that drove away the Soviets was naturally simpler. Central Asia still retained some ethnic minorities who were unwilling to come. It required time and enough immigrants to be assimilated in faith and culture. However, it was obvious that more than 2 million immigrants in Central Asia were still a little less.
As for the Indochina Peninsula, the population growth rate of the local indigenous people is not inferior to that of China, and the population is large. If you want to completely digest it, you can only use the means of reducing the admixture of the other. If there are fewer immigrants, you will not work.
But the number of immigrants is far from enough now.
Even though Meng Xiang had sent people to develop artemisinin in advance, the environment and climate of tropical and subtropical areas still made many Chinese immigrants unadapted. Some places with good environments are easy to resettle, but some places with harsh conditions in important areas still cannot be maintained for a long time. Relying on the surrounding Chinese, there are fewer people, which is not a long-term solution.
"The army should take the lead in immigration!" Meng Xiang gave such instructions after pondering for a long time.
Although the military farms in ancient borders also had measures to relieve economic pressure, they also meant that the army was leading. Relying on the discipline of the army, the surrounding harsh environment was regarded as an opponent, and the surrounding environment was improved bit by bit, so that more immigrants would come to protect themselves and benefit.
Many important cities in China come like this.
At present, when there are insufficient immigration, Meng Xiang doesn't mind the army setting an example first.
The Chinese National Defense Forces filled a lot of local warlords. When the country was unified, it was not suitable for direct cleaning. However, after a long period of time, some of them could be appropriately reduced. Even in the vanguard army, some people were not adapted to the long war and needed to withdraw from the fierce combat ranks.
Moreover, from 38 to now, there are many veterans who have started their families and are tired of war.
Not all young and strong men are suitable to be qualified soldiers, but Meng Xiang needs to establish a voluntary concept of military service. When arranging the whereabouts of some soldiers, Meng Xiang thought of the Construction Corps.
Those semi-army and half-civilian construction corps will soon lead several times their families and become pioneers of the new frontier of China.
Now, Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia already have about 2 million construction corps. As the National Defense Force develops towards mechanized elite troops, Meng Xiang once again throws out 2 million places to develop towards Central Asia and Southeast Asia. Even with the end of the war, this number will be even more.
While confusing the outside world's attention at the same time, even Britain and the United States did not know that while the Chinese army was disarmament from outside, it was also constantly carefully selecting and absorbing the new generation of troops that had grown up.
In addition to the Construction Corps and the domestic armed police force, the number of regular combat troops in China is still more than 8 million, and Godadan is preparing for a new round of external expansion.
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