Chapter 310 A new starting point for Haihan Military Industry
The requirements for training methods not only come from the newly established navy, but also from the increasing establishment of the army, the specialization of arms, the evolution of tactics in the era of hot weapons, and the establishment of modern military systems, all of which require soldiers and commanders with more complete functions. training institutions. Especially for the training of naturalized civilian officers at the grassroots level, relying solely on the batch explosion model of ordinary military training can no longer meet the needs of the new situation.
After considering the opinions and objective needs of all parties, the military decided to establish a specialized military school to solve this problem. When Tao Donglai announced the news, the construction work of the military academy had actually started quietly in the military camp area on the east bank of Victory Port. After the completion of this military academy, the recruits will be selected from the active army and navy, and these lucky ones will have the opportunity to become the future generals of the Haihan Kingdom.
In addition to training commanders and fighters for its own military force, the establishment of this military academy also has a function that is not easy to disclose, and that is to train combatants for certain special forces supported by the Cross-Travel Group abroad. For example, after being persuaded by Qian Tiandun and others, North Vietnam has sent some officers headed by Zheng Ting to prepare for a period of special training courses in Victory Port. There is also news from Fujian that the Xu Xinsu Group will send people to Victory Port in the near future to learn the combat tactics of muskets and artillery, as well as the maintenance and repair of weapons, etc. Not to mention "Fu Ruifeng", since the establishment of the Garrison Guangdong Office, there have been people in the Lijia Militia Corps receiving training from military representatives of the Garrison Guangdong Office.
Although military assistance of this nature is not as effective as the arms trade of directly selling guns and artillery, the Executive Committee and the military attach great importance to it. What these outside trainees can learn from the Haihan military is basically based on thermal weapon operations. However, in the entire Far East, there is no other company with the technology to manufacture thermal weapons. Compared with the Crossing Group, any military aid target that accepts Haihan's combat theory will inevitably become extremely dependent on the supply of weapons, and it will be difficult to form a military confrontation with the Crossing Group.
Of course, some historical lessons still have to be absorbed. For example, a certain lighthouse country continued to support some foreign armed forces for decades, and then a few years later, it was repeatedly hit in the foot by these lifted stones. On the other hand, this stupid thing of spending money to slap people in the face is also an aspect that the military should try its best to avoid. The military also has relatively sufficient preventive measures for this, which is the political propaganda that it is best at.
In this organizational adjustment of the Military and Police Department, in addition to the eye-catching split of the police force and the separate formation of the navy and land forces, the Political Department, Staff Department, Logistics Department, and Equipment Department were also established based on the establishment of the Ministry of National Defense in later generations. Several functionally subdivided departments. Among them, the political department is responsible for the internal political work and military discipline inspection within the military. It is also the window for the military’s internal and external propaganda work. For foreign personnel who come to receive training, brainwashing courses are definitely one of the necessary links in the entire training. Even if they cannot turn the minds of these trainees into those of militia soldiers who regard "loyalty to the Executive Committee" as their highest mission, at least It can also bring them to the level of the Tanzanian army in East Africa in later generations.
For the Haihan military, how many tactics these troops can learn and how much their combat effectiveness can be improved are all secondary. The most important thing is to make these officers' butts unswervingly sit on Haihan from now on. Here, there can no longer be any thoughts of being an enemy of Haihan. What the traversing group needs is an auxiliary army that can cooperate with its own armed forces to fight when necessary, rather than competitors that are strong enough to pose a threat to itself.
The Staff Office is the military command organization of the Central Military Commission. In the future, the Staff Office will be responsible for formulating and organizing various military plans, commanding and coordinating military combat operations. The Logistics Department is responsible for unified management of military supplies, health services, garrison construction and other matters for each army.
It is worth mentioning the newly established Equipment Department. As the name suggests, the function of this department is to be responsible for the research, development and manufacturing of weapons and equipment for the entire army. The shortcomings of the organizational structure of the military industry system have gradually emerged in the past year. The responsibilities and rights of each participating unit are unclear, resulting in the failure of the work efficiency of military industry units to be effectively improved. Although the Executive Committee recognized this problem early on, because there were too many relevant units, the impact of rash organizational adjustments was too great. Therefore, this matter has been in the preparatory stage until the first anniversary. All aspects of preparations have been completed. After Qi Ba Ba was almost done, Tao Donglai announced the relevant adjustment plan at the meeting.
All production units involved in the R&D and manufacturing of military equipment will jointly invest with the Equipment Division of the Central Military Commission to establish an economic entity to serve as the unit in charge of military production work. To put it simply, this is a 17th-century version of "NORINCO". It is responsible for arranging the research, development and production of armaments projects, coordinating the relationship between the military and design and production units, and also taking over external affairs. Arms trade and part of the military aid program realize an integrated business model of production, supply and marketing.
This new organization with considerable authority will be named "Haihan Ordnance Industry" and will take over all weapons and equipment production in the near future. Before this election, the previous executive committee had passed a resolution to appoint Bai Kesi, the executive committee member in charge of industry, as the CEO of "Haihan Ordnance Industry". After the establishment of this organization, it is expected to change the current situation of poor communication and unclear responsibilities and rights in the three links of research, production and use in the military industry system. Baix's first task after taking office is to discuss with the North Vietnamese mission this year's arms sales plan and other military assistance plans.
Another military-related news announced at the meeting was that the Crossing Group's garrison in Annan would be expanded to form an independent battalion in the colonial zone. During the January aid operation in Vietnam, Black Earth Port actually already had three companies of armed personnel, which was actually not much different from the battalion-level establishment. The Black Earth Port Militia Troops led by Qian Tiandun and others repeatedly performed extraordinary feats during the twenty-day battle and performed very well. Post-war expansion is almost a certainty. Announcing this matter now is also a warm-up for the military awards ceremony three days later. Qian Tiandun's promotion and commendation order and the announcement of the establishment of an independent battalion in the Annan colonial area will be announced again at the award ceremony.
After the completion of the major organizational adjustment centered on the former Military and Police Department, the rest of the announcement content is basically a refinement of the functions of each department. For example, the Ministry of Finance will refine the budget department, finance department, accounting department and other departments, and delegate some power to various lower-level functional departments.
However, there are not many units that can successfully complete organizational restructuring like the Ministry of Finance. After all, there are limited professionals, and some departments that use black technology cannot train naturalized citizens who can take over the work in the short term. For example, the Communications Department and Equipment Support Department of the Ministry of Information Industry have no staff with naturalized citizenship status at all, because the equipment used is basically electronic equipment, and it is difficult to teach those who cannot read a lot of Chinese characters. Before the organizational adjustment, the Ministry of Information Industry only had a staff of 18 full-time and part-time employees. After the adjustment, there were still so many people. This also reflects to a certain extent the fundamental reason why the original executive committee member Meng Hehui lost in this election. .
The re-election of the executive committee actually took less than an hour to complete, but it took a whole day to announce the organizational adjustment plans of each unit. Fortunately, these adjustments are much larger only in terms of administrative ownership rights, and there is no need for the units involved to be relocated and adjusted. Most of the relevant members will still stay at their original jobs, and only a very small number of personnel will need to change their locations according to the transfer order.
After this organizational sorting out, the Executive Committee will not make any major adjustments to the internal organizational structure during the year. At most, it will add some middle and lower-level management organizations based on functional needs. Although this process is very time-consuming and troublesome, and there are some complaints among members, from the perspective of long-term development needs, the Executive Committee believes that making timely adjustments to the organizational structure at this stage can avoid greater problems in the future. question. After all, it is easy to turn around now because the ship is small and there are relatively few stakeholders involved. We can make corresponding adjustments before many shortcomings and disadvantages are solidified. If we wait until the group develops to a certain scale in the future, or even establishes a political power, we will want to go back and make changes. In some institutional settings, it may not be as easy as it is now.
The afternoon meeting was followed by the traditional celebration of eating and drinking. Tao Donglai did not forget to invite the uncles and nephews Zheng Zha and Zheng Ting from the North Vietnamese mission to come and participate in this gluttonous feast. Of course, the uncle and nephew of the Zheng family, who did not know what was going on, quickly fell into the trap of these people at the banquet table. They were fed a lot of evil and were taken off the stage before the banquet was over.
As a newcomer to the executive committee and at the same time serving as the top officer of the police department, Ren Liang had a double happiness today, and naturally he became the target of everyone's siege at the wine table. Although Ren Liang held on for half of the game with determination, in the end the hero was still overwhelmed by the crowd and could not escape the fate of being carried off the battlefield.
The civil affairs department has always been very strict about the supply of local alcoholic drinks. Although they brought a lot of alcoholic beverages when traveling, whether they were public supplies or private collections, except for some necessary banquets, the executive committee There has not been a large-scale cocktail party like this one this year. At the back, some guys who had drunk too much inevitably couldn't control their emotions, and there were a few minor disputes, but they were quickly settled. There were also some people who had been prepared and quietly retreated halfway through their drinks to have fun in the business district of the port. Until the moon rises above the treetops, there are still at least three tables of old wine cans still insisting on fighting on the front line. As for who is the winner of the night, because there are too many people who drank the memory fragments, and there are no The video data proves that the truth can no longer be restored due to the different opinions after the incident. However, according to statistics from the civil affairs department, the drinking at this anniversary dinner basically wiped out one-third of the various beverage reserves in the material warehouse, and the combat effectiveness is still considerable.
However, the sequelae caused by this dinner party cannot be ignored. Various meetings originally scheduled for the next morning had to be postponed until the afternoon because a considerable number of participants were still semi-conscious. Fortunately, the logistics department also anticipated such a situation and prepared a large amount of hangover soup to save these guys.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Tao Donglai and Bai Kesi, who had red eyes, met the North Vietnamese envoy who was also sick and depressed.
Tao Donglai had dealt with Zheng Zha before, and both sides knew each other's status in the camp, so they saved a lot of trouble. Tao Donglai first introduced Bai Kesi's identity and the policy adjustments to the arms trade to Zheng Zha. After all, future arms exports will be operated by the "Haihan Military Industry" led by Bai Kesi, and he will also slowly withdraw from the specific management of arms trade affairs. , at most, the executive committee can control the general policy direction.
Zheng Zha listened for a long time before he understood that the Han people had set up a special department to deal with arms trade and foreign military aid. Although he didn't quite understand why the Haihan people would set up such an institution in such a superfluous manner, there must be a reason for doing so. Zheng Zha waited until Tao Dong finished speaking and then asked cautiously: "Have the prices changed since the 'Haihan Military Industry' took over the weapons business?"
Baikes then said: "There will be no change in price in the near future. We will still provide you with the best weapons based on the supply price of the previous year. In addition, we have also prepared military training courses for your senior officers. , you can send 20 officers to Victory Port every year to receive our training.”
"Then the cost..." Zheng Zha was really scared of being ripped off by Haihan. Every time the purchase order was negotiated, it was enough to make the powerful people in Shenglong Mansion feel pain for a long time, but Haihan These things must be bought. Whether it is salt or guns, they have now become necessities for the North Vietnamese senior officials to maintain the stability of the regime. Even if they know that they will be ripped off by the Haihan people, they can only bite the bullet.
"The cost is easy to say." Bai Kesi replied with a smile: "Your trainees only need to prepare the living expenses during the training period. We only open this kind of advanced training class for close partners to maintain the relationship between both parties." For the purpose of friendly relations, we will not charge any other fees.”
Regarding this detail, the Executive Committee and the military have long reached a consensus. Recruiting high-level students without tuition seems to be unprofitable, and most of them have to invest in training funds. However, after these people return to school after completing their studies, they will often become middle-level and high-level leaders in the local armed forces. The influence you have is what the executive committee values. Not to mention anything else, the arms orders these people can give to the Cross-Travel Group after they take power in the future will earn back tens of thousands of times the training fees.
Zheng Zha was stunned for a moment, and then said thoughtfully: "Your training plan is very far-reaching!"
Bai Kesi had no intention of fooling Zheng Zha into thinking that he was a fool. He nodded and admitted his point of view: "The reason why we proposed this training plan is because we believe that the cooperative relationship with you is not just about existence. In a short period of time, it will develop in a long-term, stable and sustainable manner. We believe that both sides can have many long-term cooperation aspects, whether it is arms trade or military training, combat methods, and organizational structure. With a very sincere attitude, we hope to improve the combat effectiveness of your army through various means and realize the peaceful reunification of Annan as soon as possible. For us, gold and silver are not the first consideration. The long-term relationship between the two parties is the key.”
Regarding Bai Kesi's answer, although Zheng Zha didn't understand many of the words, he could understand the general meaning. He had to lament that although these Haihan people were all disguised as businessmen, their ability to speak official terms was much better than the Annan bureaucrats he had seen.
The Haihan people made it clear that they wanted to use this so-called training to win over senior officials in the North Vietnamese Army and seek long-term interests. Zheng Zha actually understood this trick, but the other party's explanation was so round and round. The sinister plan immediately turned into a good intention, and it was also linked to the cooperative relationship between the two parties. It seemed that if Zheng Zha did not agree to the matter immediately, the future cooperative relationship between the two parties would be cast by a shadow.
Although Zheng Zha had already experienced this negotiation method of the Haihan people, it still made him feel uncomfortable when he encountered it again. Whether it was the initial arms sales negotiations or the later Haihan people's proposal to use force to assist the southern battlefield, Zheng Zha felt that his side had always been on the very passive side. In the end, not only did they have to pay a lot of money, but they also had to agree to many unreasonable conditions from the Haihan people, and they made it seem like they were asking for help. This was the case again. Looking at Bai Kesi's hateful smiling face, Zheng Zhu really wanted to be willful and have someone drag him out and beat him up.
Of course, this is just a thought. After seeing the Haihan people's port fort defenses yesterday, Zheng Zha decided to put down his airs during the Victory Port and not show any negative emotions in front of the Haihan people. If he could have so many Haihan cannons, Zheng Zha believed that the front line of Zhengjiang and Hengshan would definitely become indestructible... No, he would definitely be able to lead his army in the southern expedition, crush Hue Prefecture all the way, kill all the rebel Nguyen clan, and let An The Southern Kingdom returned to a unified situation.
In order to achieve this goal, Zheng Zha felt that he should try to buy as many advanced weapons as possible from the Haihan people. It would be best if they could cooperate with them in attacking South Vietnam. The only way to get these arrogant Haihan people to follow their own wishes is to show excellent cooperation in front of them. Whether it was military personnel training or human trafficking, Zheng Zha decided to accept it first and strive to get the Haihan people to provide more military assistance - such as the new muskets used by the Haihan militia, or to obtain the Haihan people. So can navy warships.
(End of chapter)