Chapter 128 The Difference between Huayi
"But we now maintain a very good relationship with Ming Dynasty. There are many official and private communication channels. And as the scale of our trade continues to expand, the interest entanglement between Ming Dynasty and us will only become deeper and deeper. I don't think so. I believe that there will be a possibility that the relationship between the two parties will break down in the near future and even war will be necessary. In just one or two years, we will cultivate enough vested interests within the Ming Dynasty, and there will be more and more people like Luo Shengdong, and they will. Spare no effort to maintain the relationship with us and deal with the hidden dangers that may cause trouble for us." Naturally, Schneider would not be easily persuaded by Yan Chujie's words. In his opinion, Yan Chujie's attitude was more like an attempt to achieve his goal. Intentional alarmism.
"The Ming Dynasty is one of our external threats, but it is not the only threat!" As one of the supervisors of the Military and Police Department, Tao Donglai really couldn't watch his comrades continue to fight alone, so he could only choose to participate in this battle. During the debate: "Everyone here must not forget that our future opponents will also include the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, and countless pirates in the large sea area from Wusongkou to Malacca! Any of these forces None of them will be less of a threat than the Ming Dynasty, and they will never treat us as descendants of the same clan as the Ming Dynasty. Our rhetoric of coming from Haihan will not have much impact on these maritime forces. Special effect. Don’t think that only pirates can commit plunder. If we don’t have enough strength to protect ourselves, these Western powers will also swallow us up as a piece of fat!”
"Don't think that these naturalized citizens are qualified soldiers after one or two months of intensive training. Their current combat skills are basically zero! To be serious, these soldiers and security guards don't even know what war is. Their understanding is not even as good as that of the keyboard strategists among us! Without years of training, they would not be able to fight on the battlefield. Compared with the guardsmen of the Ming Dynasty, they just line up more neatly!"
"Also, don't ignore the time it takes to form an army. The army may only take one or two years to form an army, but for the navy, which we are very dependent on in the future, one or two years may only be enough to train a group of sailors. That's it, it's still far from the requirements of becoming an army! Where will our future navy come from? Shouldn't it be trained in batches from the new military camp? Isn't it a lot to spend one or two thousand a month compared to the navy? It’s considered a small one, but if we start complaining about poverty now, will the Navy still do it in the future?”
Tao Donglai rarely spoke so seriously in internal meetings. After he finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the conference room. Finally, Schneider broke the silence: "Mr. Tao, what I mean is not that I oppose the establishment of military forces by the Military and Police Department, but that I oppose the large-scale expansion of the army at this stage. We should at least wait until..."
"We can wait, but our opponents won't be so kind as to wait any longer!" Yan Chujie interrupted Schneider before he finished speaking: "Mr. Tao also made it very clear just now. These naturalized soldiers and security guards we train , it will take some time to truly form combat effectiveness. In fact, they cannot even meet the quality requirements of future recruits, so they have to be deployed because of the situation. Although we will take the route of elite troops in the future, these soldiers are currently on hand. They are not elite soldiers. According to the Military and Police Department, they have not even reached the level of a qualified soldier. All we can do now is to expand the size of the establishment and make a fuss about the quantity. "
"Well, I guess I don't have a better way to convince you, but I want to remind you that the military and police department's budget for the next quarter is best adjusted again, and I suggest that starting from next quarter, the military budget must be passed by the Executive Committee It can only be implemented in the Ministry of Finance after the meeting's deliberation. After all, our executive committee model is a democratic system, not a military regime, right?" Faced with the determined attitude of the two bosses, Schneider reluctantly gave up. Confrontation, but he still hopes to put a restriction on the military and police department in the rules of the game.
This time Tao Donglai did not insist anymore and nodded: "This is what should be done. In fact, I think it is necessary for each department to prepare a budget for next year's development plan at the end of the year. Now that we have started When the internal currency settlement system is implemented, budget and final accounting methods should be promoted accordingly. Mr. Shi should be very clear about the importance of this, right?”
"Of course." Seeing Tao Donglai's attitude softened, Schneider cheered up and explained: "Preparing the government's annual fiscal revenue and expenditure budget is the core of the financial work of the transnational regime, and it is also the difference between an emerging regime like ours. One of the biggest differences from the feudal regime is that with a government budget, we can scientifically formulate development plans and effectively conduct financial supervision of various functional departments. On this issue, I unconditionally support Mr. Tao’s proposal. The annual budget system should indeed be implemented as soon as possible. be implemented.”
Although it was slightly off topic, the executive committee finally reached a consensus on this and approved the military and police department's enrollment expansion plan. However, when reviewing the list of expatriates of the Military and Police Department, new doubts were raised.
"Why is there the name of Little Japan in it?" Meng He pointed at the personnel list and shouted: "Isn't Takahashi Minami the foreman of the labor camp? How come he is also on the list of expatriates of the Military and Police Department?"
"Let me explain this." Yan Chujie said: "This little Japanese has always performed well during the labor camp, and his organizational skills are also good. The most important thing is that he has a high degree of recognition of our traversing regime and is willing to serve us. Work. Ren Liang made several reports to the Military and Police Department, all of which mentioned that he hoped to transfer Gao Qiaonan's status to a naturalized citizen and give him a chance to advance. "Ren Liang had managed the labor camp before. He is well organized and has also proposed far-reaching employment plans such as the "labor hierarchy". The executive committee fully recognizes his abilities. Since this candidate was proposed by Ren Liang, Meng He would not question Ren Liang's vision, but Yan Chujie's answer did not answer all the questions in his mind: "Then what are the details of where to send this little Japan?" What is the function? ”
Yan Chujie responded: "Continue to do the supervisory work that he is good at. The Vietnamese population imported into Xingang is likely to reach one or two thousand people in a short period of time, and most of the people we send there are technicians and armed personnel. There are very few managers on real construction sites, and Ren Liang believes that people like Gao Qiaonan can play a greater role in Xingang than the labor camp foreman.”
"Is it a natural talent for little Japan to be good at management?" Meng He joked casually.
"It's not so much talent as it is acquired habits." Ning Qi explained for Yan Chujie: "The Bushido they pursue is a system of absolute obedience. For lower-level samurai, unconditional execution of the orders of superiors is Their bounden duty, so in our opinion, Takahashi Minami’s obedience has always been very good, and he will also use his own standards to require and train his subordinates.”
"Nan Takahashi has always been a scapegoat in the labor camp. We use Japanese to manage the Vietnamese and let Takahashi Nan play the image of the villain. This can actually avoid conflicts between us and Vietnamese immigrants to a certain extent. A direct conflict," Yan Chujie added.
Speaking of this topic, Tao Donglai couldn't help but express his views: "As for the racial issue of naturalized people, I think everyone should not pay too much attention to it. Multi-ethnic and even multi-racial people coexist under our management. Such We will face this situation sooner or later. In the future, there will probably be Japanese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Mongolians, white Europeans and even black Africans in our factories and troops. We should not be limited to future generations. Cognition, using language, ethnicity, race, and skin color as the boundaries that distinguish between countries, internal and external, our standards for collecting naturalized people should be based on the basic recognition of the social system we implement, and the height of our political power. Loyal!”
"As for Gao Qiaonan's work arrangements, I think this is a good opportunity for us to solve ethnic issues institutionally in the future."
"Mr. Tao, the ethnic policy you mentioned is not bad, but I think it is difficult for a Han nationalist like me to agree with your point of view. Doesn't this weaken the status of us Han people in disguise?" There has always been a strong voice. Meng He, who had an imperial-Han ideological bent, immediately questioned Tao Donglai's statement.
"Are you saying this because you want to talk about the Huayi distinction? Your view is not Han chauvinism, but narrow nationalism." Tao Donglai immediately retorted: "Even according to the ancestors' statement, based on "Spring and Autumn Annals" " and the 'Three Rites' to distinguish the Chinese from the barbarians are only based on culture. To put it bluntly, they abide by our social system and cultural inheritance. That is, the Chinese. Our ancestors never said that we should distinguish them by skin color or race. What we need to do is to assimilate the naturalized people culturally and institutionally, instead of distinguishing the naturalized people according to nationality, race, etc. from the beginning, and separate Han people from Han people. Non-Han ethnic groups”
(End of chapter)