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Chapter 272 Mu Haoyang's Plan

According to the official information released by China, as early as the end of 2053, when the Chinese team turned from defense to offense, Mu Haoyang proposed for the first time that he should prepare for the end of the war in advance, especially for the global reconstruction work after the war.[..com]

Obviously, this is too far-sighted.

You should know that it was not until the end of 2054 that the Chinese team saw the hope of winning for the first time, and the battle situation was still in a stalemate at the end of 2053.

However, Mu Haoyang's proposal did not seem ahead of the curve.

There is enough reason to believe that Huang Hanlin must have had similar ideas at that time, and must have discussed the issue of post-war reconstruction with Mu Haoyang.

However, in 2053, preparations for this must be too advanced.

You should know that the Chinese team was still working hard to seize strategic initiative at that time. All the national production capacity was placed on the military, and it was impossible to prepare for post-war reconstruction.

Of course, it is not impossible to do something that does not require national strength.

In 2054, Mu Haoyang established a department under the Ministry of War that was responsible for supervising industrial production across the country, and conducted a capacity survey every month. At that time, the department was mainly serving the war, that is, ensuring that military production could proceed smoothly and prevent the occurrence of capacity wasted. However, the department did not have actual control rights and could only provide advice to relevant departments of the State Council.

This institution was later the "Post-War Reconstruction Planning Office".

Although it is only a department-level administrative unit, its power is very large. The reason is very simple. This department is responsible for all the specific implementation of the "Mu Haoyang Plan", and it is not only aimed at China, but also dozens of countries, managing as many as millions of yuan in post-war reconstruction grants. More importantly, the agency is also responsible for planning specific reconstruction projects, including providing reconstruction funds to other countries.

By 2055, Mu Haoyang had already had a clear idea of ​​the post-war reconstruction plan.

At that time, he first proposed that in addition to determining reconstruction assistance plans based on the contributions made by each allies during the war, the reconstruction plans should also be planned based on the status of each country in the new post-war pattern, and mainly based on this standard.

In fact, this is the core content of the "Mu Haoyang Plan".

However, in 2055, very few people were able to accept such a proposal.

It can be said that at that time even Huang Hanlin thought that Mu Haoyang's idea was too advanced, and he could not propose such a reconstruction plan at the Summit of the Allies.

Of course, there are some more serious problems.

For example, where did the huge reconstruction fund come from?

You should know that China is a debtor country, not a creditor country, so it is impossible for other countries to carry out post-war reconstruction by exempting debts. If China bears the reconstruction funds, it will only increase China's debt burden, thus making reconstruction meaningless.

Fortunately, these problems were then properly resolved.

In fact, it was the issue of post-war reconstruction that ultimately determined the way of occupation of the United States.

At that time, Mu Haoyang mentioned an extremely critical issue, that is, this war is very different from the Second World War more than a hundred years ago, so the post-war reconstruction work led by China is definitely essentially different from the original "Marshall Plan".

Obviously, at this time, Mu Haoyang had already gained a very clear understanding of post-war reconstruction.

Compared with World War II, World War III is indeed very different. For example, as the most important victorious country, China is not the world's largest creditor country, but the world's largest debtor country. It almost won the war with the resources of forty allies.

In fact, this is not the biggest difference.

During World War II, most of the allies were poisoned by the war. Almost all countries were destroyed by the war. At the end of the war, all countries encountered huge difficulties in reconstruction, and the most significant was economic problems. It was also under this background that the United States implemented the "Marshall Plan" to help all countries rebuild after the war and restore social order. It was also the "Marshall Plan" that helped most countries destroyed by the war recover their vitality in just a few years, survived the most difficult post-war period, and even helped the culprits like Germany and Japan grow rapidly. More importantly, the "Marshall Plan" ensured that the United States replaced Britain after the war and became the global hegemon.

So, what is the difference between World War III?

First of all, there are not many countries in the Oriental Allied Group that have been severely damaged by war. Even a few countries in the war zone, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, etc., have not suffered very serious damage. There are only three countries that can be considered to be severely damaged by war, namely Iran, Syria and Jordan, and other countries have not suffered much losses.

Secondly, during the entire war, the economic operation of the Eastern Alliance Group was relatively normal. In addition to increasing China's debt burden, the impact caused by the war basically did not have much impact on major countries, and the economic order of most countries was relatively normal. In this way, what needs to be solved after the war was not the reconstruction problem, but how to prevent the economic order from a problem due to the end of the war.

In fact, from an economic perspective, this is the biggest problem.

You should know that during the war period, what maintains the economy is huge war expenses, and this expense is essentially borne by China. What other countries do is to provide China with war materials and receive China's IOUs. With the end of the war, China's military orders will definitely decrease sharply, and those companies that rely on selling war materials to China will inevitably encounter troubles.

Obviously, what China needs to do is not to encourage production, but how to digest the productivity that broke out during the war.

Third, the "Marshall Plan" later evolved into a tool for the United States to fight against the Soviet Union, or the United States established a group of countries to encircle and suppress the Soviet Union through the plan, namely the NATO Group. However, after the end of this war, China would not encounter the same problem. Even the European Federation was not enough to challenge China's hegemony and would not pose a threat to China's global interests.

You should know that during the entire war, the Oriental Alliance Group had only one core country, and no second one.

The problem that this leads to is that even if China launches a post-war reconstruction plan, its fundamental purpose is not to deal with a potential opponent through reconstruction.

In fact, it was precisely for this reason that many people opposed expanding post-war reconstruction to a global scale, and even more opposed China's obligation to bear the reconstruction.

Finally, and most importantly, this war has fundamentally determined China's hegemony, so China does not need to carry out a global post-war reconstruction operation to consolidate its hegemony, and there is no need to let Chinese taxpayers pay for the reconstruction work of other countries.

These differences fundamentally determine that the reconstruction plan proposed by Mu Haoyang is different from the "Marshall Plan".

Of course, it seems that the two reconstruction plans are almost the same.

It can be said that at that time, many people did not understand why Mu Haoyang was so keen on post-war reconstruction, and this reconstruction plan was obviously helping the defeated country.

Fortunately, there is someone who understands it, and this person is Huang Hanlin.

By the end of 2055, Huang Hanlin almost fully accepted the post-war reconstruction plan proposed by Mu Haoyang, and deeply realized the importance of helping the defeated country rebuild.

It is also true that at the subsequent Oriental League summit, Huang Hanlin played a series of trump cards, laying the foundation for the post-war international order.

It can be said that by connecting what Huang Hanlin did from the end of June to the beginning of July 2056 with the reconstruction plan proposed by Mu Haoyang, we can find that there is an internal connection between the two. It can even be believed that it was Mu Haoyang's reconstruction plan that promoted Huang Hanlin to put forward a comprehensive idea of ​​the post-war international order at the last Oriental Alliance Group summit, and eventually received the support of most of the allies.

If you look carefully, you will find that many of Huang Hanlin's proposals at this meeting are actually related to Mu Haoyang's reconstruction plan. For example, Huang Hanlin's proposal to develop cosmic resources, establish an international space station, and establish a colony on the moon in a cooperative manner is to digest huge productivity so that enterprises that produce military materials during the war can still obtain enough orders after the war and get the opportunity to adjust their productivity. For example, Huang Hanlin's proposal to use technology exports to repay debts is to prepare for adjustments to the economic structure. For example, Huang Hanlin's final commitment on the issue of US occupation is related to US reconstruction.

It can be seen from this that the core content of the "Mu Haoyang Plan" is not to make the post-war economy prosperous, but to ensure that the global economy can still operate normally after the war ends and avoid the Great Depression caused by the disappearance of wartime orders. In fact, this is the most different from the "Marshall Plan".

Of course, when implemented, many places are no different from the "Marshall Plan".

For example, when relocating retired soldiers, Mu Haoyang encouraged them to participate in post-war reconstruction work and tried every means to provide convenient conditions.

Later, China introduced a policy that allowed retired soldiers to join the nationality of the country where they were located and helped the country where they were located to carry out post-war reconstruction. This policy directly led to about five million people joining American nationality within three years after the end of the war and becoming the main force for the United States to carry out post-war reconstruction. Of course, this is also related to the national conditions of the United States, that is, at the end of the war, the gender ratio of the United States had been severely unbalanced. After nearly 80 million American men died in the war, the proportion of women reached 58%. As a result, the United States had severely lacked major social labor after the war and urgently needed new immigrants.

In any case, the post-war reconstruction plan launched by Mu Haoyang is definitely a major advancement in civilization.

Chapter 272 Mu Haoyang's Plan
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