Chapter 198 Absolute power leads to absolute corruption
Chapter 1980: Absolute power leads to absolute corruption
On November 19, taking advantage of the east wind that wiped out the Japanese fleet, the Nanjing National Government officially announced that it would establish a Chinese Expeditionary Force in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province. ("")
The composition of the Chinese Expeditionary Force is quite meaningful. General Zhu Peide, the chairman of Yunnan Province who had been away from the central government for a long time, was unexpectedly appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the supreme commander of the expeditionary force. Wei Li, the "Five Tiger General" who had close relations with the Communist Party in North China,
Huang served as deputy commander-in-chief, the chief of general staff was American Lieutenant General Stilwell, who was not favored by Chiang Kai-shek, and the deputy chief of general staff was He Yingqin's confidant Major General Xiao Yisu.
In addition to Chiang Kai-shek transferring the newly formed direct troops of the Central Army into the Expeditionary Force to block the public's attention, other unsatisfactory miscellaneous armies and local troops were also crammed in, including the Yunnan Army, Zhang Hongluan's Department in Western Hunan, and Shi Zhen's Department in Western Guizhou.
The ministry was required to send its elite main force to participate in the expeditionary force, which was euphemistically called "bringing glory to the country."
An Yi naturally knew what Chiang Kai-shek was up to and immediately called Zhu Peide. Zhu Peide, the founder of the Yunnan Army who was supposed to have died five years ago, is now dead due to the rapid progress of science and technology, especially Nanhua's breakthroughs in biology and pharmacology.
The body is still healthy.
Zhu Peide replied on the phone, "If you live and die for the benefit of the country, how can you avoid it because of misfortunes and blessings? Now that Yunnan has a harmonious political system and all industries are prosperous, it is the time for the Yunnan Army to serve the country." An Yi vaguely felt that things were not that simple. Zhan Huanqi had already called
, claiming that Chiang Kai-shek had secretly arrived in Kunming three days ago, stayed at the Guangfu Building in Wuhuashan, and had secret discussions with Zhu Peide behind closed doors.
During this period, Zhang Hongluan and Shi Zhen went to Kunming one after another and secretly visited Chiang Kai-shek, which revealed many inside stories.
Zhu Peide had seven sons and three daughters. As Zhu Peide's position in Yunnan became increasingly consolidated, Zhu Weiliang, Zhu Weizhi, Zhu Weixin and others either returned from studying in Europe and the United States, or graduated from the Central Military Academy, and one after another took up the leading positions in the military and political affairs of Yunnan. Those who had worked hard for Zhu Peide
Zhan Huanqi was gradually marginalized.
Although Zhan Huanqi is Zhu Peide's son-in-law, because he is also An Yi's brother, many core secrets are gradually isolated from him. Therefore, he who is currently organizing the army in western Yunnan did not learn the truth through insiders until he saw the news of the establishment of the expeditionary force.
The result shocked him.
An Yi was also shocked. An Yi believed that he had never treated his allies badly, such as Yunnan, Xiangxi, and Qianxi. From 2028 to now, he had provided help in all aspects such as capital and technology. To a certain extent, the three allies
Almost all of them are prosperous because of the An Jiajun group. All decisions he makes that are related to the interests of the three families will be notified immediately. Now the three families are secretly in contact with Chiang Kai-shek. Who would believe it if there is no shady story?
An Yi thought of the Xiangxi Arsenal and Xiangxi Pharmaceutical Factory with an output value of hundreds of millions, the Panzhihua Iron Mine with an annual output of 15 million tons of iron ore, and the 50 billion tons of coal reserves, coal bed methane and shallow natural gas reserves.
In the Liupanshui mining area of more than one trillion cubic meters, I thought of Gejiu, known as the tin capital, and of the complete industrial base established by supporting the three places over the years. Once a problem occurs, it will be the same for Nanhua.
A huge disaster. ("")
The more I thought about An Yi, the more uneasy I felt, and he immediately issued instructions. The CIA and the Ministry of National Security immediately joined hands to investigate everything that had happened in Yunnan, Western Hunan and Western Guizhou over the years, hoping to find clues and discover the gradual progress of the three allies.
The underlying reasons for centrifugation.
As a result, in just three days, shocking reports and cases were placed on An Yi's desk one after another, making him restless.
In these years, as the economy continues to improve, in addition to significant progress in industry and agriculture in Yunnan, Xiangxi and Qianxi, industries such as transportation, real estate, finance, and electricity are also booming. Nowadays, these three regions are no longer
In the past, the situation was poor and poor. But while the finances were affluent, corruption, abuse of power for personal gain, and even the collusion between local dignitaries and the underworld to bully men and dominate women gradually spread.
Although most of the cadres in the three places have gone to the Southwest University of Political Science and Law to receive strict ideological and political education, accepted the governing philosophy of serving the people wholeheartedly, and wanted to do something good at the beginning of their careers, because the three places are allies of the Anjiajun,
In the special situation where the military-led government has complete autonomy over military and internal affairs, Nanhua's supervision and disciplinary inspection departments have no way to restrain it. In addition, the focus of Anyi Group has shifted from the Syrian government to Annan, and the Syrian government has no control over it.
The influence of surrounding areas has rapidly weakened. In addition, these areas have high mountains and long roads, and the media is underdeveloped. This has formed relatively closed areas. Soon, the collusion of power and money has given rise to new interest groups. They have joined hands to monopolize one area.
, treating the people as their own cash machines, and taking the resources in these areas as private products.
Of course, these people are very cunning. Most of them have received systematic training in the Syrian government and know who cannot be touched. As long as there is someone in the family studying, working, serving as a civil servant, or serving in the army, they will be given preferential treatment. In addition, for
Reporters who came and went followed the whole process and sent special personnel to act out a scene of peace and prosperity for the country and the people. As a result, outsiders did not know the real situation in various places.
Although the economies of these areas have gradually prospered following the expansion of Nanhua, in fact, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have emerged one after another, and the people have not benefited much. Even the compulsory education that An Yi has always insisted on has been changed to educate industrialized children. Children of school age must pay to study. Peaceful
There is already an undercurrent surging under the surface of the lake.
At Chongwen Tower in Xiaonanhai, An Yi was extremely angry after reading all the information he found. However, the matter involved too many areas. What was especially bad was that Zhu Peide, Zhang Hongluan and Shi Zhen were nominally allies with him. Although Nanhua was now opening up borders.
Tuotu is far from what it used to be, but nominally everyone has equal status.
An Yi thought for a long time and asked the two intelligence officers who came to report the situation: "I wonder if Zhu Yigong, Senior Zhang and Shi Zhen know these situations?"
Chen Yu looked solemn: "It is impossible to say that I don't know. In fact, the Zhu family, Zhang family, Shi family, the main generals of the armies and divisions, as well as government officials at all levels, are all under this abnormal political system.
The biggest beneficiary. ("") The corruption of military generals and government officials has become a common phenomenon. If you don't want to be ostracized in these areas, you can only join in by committing suicide. The situation is shocking.
"What goes up and what follows leads to action. Nowadays, county and township officials in Yunnan, western Hunan, western Guizhou and other places are like local local emperors. Corruption and bribery, buying and selling of official positions and even bullying of men and women often occur. The confrontation between officials and the people is getting more and more serious. Even though
It is a factory enterprise established in cooperation with us. The phenomenon of harming the public and enriching private interests is also very common. Since we only provide technology, machinery and capital for shares, out of trust in our allies, most of the managers are appointed by local personnel. Due to our strict acceptance system
, they didn’t dare to mess with the quality, so they thought of ways in other aspects...
"The most common trick is to use the name of a joint venture to take orders, and then hand them over to private companies to work overtime to produce, thereby making huge profits. Although this invisibly increases the production capacity of the company and improves our overall military production capacity in Nanhua,
However, because the labor intensity of workers using assembly line operations is too high, they are often exhausted. At the same time, a large amount of tax revenue originally belonging to the government flows into private pockets, causing local water conservancy, transportation, municipal construction, etc. to slow down, and people are complaining!"
An Yi's face was ashen and he asked: "Such a serious situation did not evolve overnight. How could the intelligence department know nothing about it? Are all our agencies stationed in various places just for free?"
Chen Yu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "In the final analysis, Yunnan, Western Guizhou and Western Hunan are not our territory. We are mainly connected by interests and mutual trust. Our agencies cannot do many things without the local government and
Because of the support of the military, we can only turn a blind eye. Anyway, it is only the local people who are suffering, and it has not affected our military production. Even because of the cruel exploitation, production costs have dropped, and our purchase prices have increased slightly.
Slide down and save a lot of money!
"After analyzing the pros and cons, the intelligence agencies in various places agreed that it is really not appropriate to go to war during the war. Such sweatshops are actually beneficial to us in South China. Compared with the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, the living standards in the three places are still much better due to the development of industry, so they chose
We ignored it for a long time, but all the information was archived and available for the headquarters to call at any time. This is also the main reason why we gained so much in just three days.
"Actually, I was surprised when I got the information, but when I think about it carefully, others are on their own territory, so it makes sense no matter what they do. To put it bluntly, we are just outsiders, investors, and the ownership belongs to them. We don't have any rights at all."
We cannot blame them morally. Judging from the secret meeting between Zhang Hongluan, Shi Zhen and even Zhu Yigong and Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, the situation is more complicated than we imagined."
"It's a pity that we sent work teams to these areas to carry out land reform and build primary and secondary schools in each village to win over the people. Now everything has come to nothing..."
An Yi sighed sadly. At this time, he had completely calmed down. After thinking about it, he seriously asked Du Yi, who was silent on the side: "Are there similar situations in the southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan and Zhaotong areas that we directly control?"
"No!"
Du Yi answered categorically: "The supervision in our directly-administered areas has always been very strict, and there is absolutely no breeding ground for corruption. From the central to local governments, public opinion is directly protected, and even ordinary people can pass through the village entrance or at any time.
The mailing address written in special paint on the side of the street is reported to our disciplinary inspection department. Our major banks have been providing preferential loans to qualified media. At the same time, the local police system is decoupled from the local government, and the funds are transferred from the central bank to the bank.
In a sense, the public security and armed police are part of the army. Of course, they are also supervised by the people's congresses at all levels established strictly according to the principle of workers, farmers, officials and soldiers each accounting for one-quarter.
“In order to prevent the occurrence of redundant staff and prevent relatives of officials from entering the agency through connections, local government budgets and staffing plans will be reviewed by the supervisory department based on actual conditions, and the second step will be checked by the local people’s congress, and finally the central government will organize a study
and approval, if there is any problem at any point, it will not be approved.
"In addition, all local government expenditures are earmarked for special purposes and are jointly supervised by special committees of the local people's congresses and central supervisory agencies. Financial power cannot be used independently, and there is no violent machine to suppress and coerce the people, so that officials' words and deeds can be reported at any time.
The public has the right to report everything they see directly to the Central Supervision Bureau and the Commission for Discipline Inspection, so that the behavior of officials at all levels is exposed to the light of day, and the darkness naturally disappears.
"Moreover, in the current state of war, the Chairman has long said that you are planning to set up an Independent Commission Against Corruption in peacetime, in addition to the National Ministry of Supervision and the Commission for Discipline Inspection, to be directly responsible to you and specifically to supervise officials and local governments.
We will resolutely crack down on privately established small treasury, privately converting public property to private property, etc. As a result, officials who enjoy high salaries and high pensions must consider the dire consequences even if they want to extend their hands.
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"As long as the official atmosphere is not bad and other laws and regulations keep up, there will not be so many bad things happening in Xiangxi, Qianxi and Yunnan!"
An Yi stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. Chongwen Building faced the garden of Xiaonanhai. Although it was already early winter in northern China, and many areas such as Siberia and the Far East were covered in ice and snow, Xinjing, which felt like summer all year round, was still
The flowers are in full bloom, and everything is so vibrant under the warm and sunny sunshine.
An Yi was silent for a long time, turned around and sat down on the sofa, waved his hands and said: "I don't blame you for this. In fact, four years ago, Nanhua first carried out ideological and work attitude rectification, and I knew that there might be problems in Xiangxi and other places.
, but at that time we had just established a foothold in Annan and Mongolia. Not long ago, the war in Central Asia was raging. Once the impact was too large, we would fall into serious internal strife, and many of our original expansion plans would be aborted!
"In the past few years, our military and government departments have had an annual ideological and work style rectification, and various laws, regulations and supervision measures have been continuously improved. However, the allies who have grown with us at the same time have no such constraints and are booming in the economy.
Under such circumstances, it is completely conceivable that power will lose control and become corrupted! Now I suddenly know why they secretly went to see Chairman Chiang Kai-shek..."
Chen Yu and Du Yi both knew the unfinished meaning of An Yi's words and nodded one after another. A trace of cruelty flashed across Du Yi's face and he said:
"Boss, do you want to focus on arresting degenerate soldiers, corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen in the three places in accordance with our laws and regulations? The amount of money they have squeezed out of the people in the past few years is conservatively estimated to be around two to three billion. If this amount of money is
Invest in the improvement of people's livelihood in Nanhua, and our economy will reach a new level!"
An Yi shook his head: "Now is not the time... If we do that, it will completely sever the friendship we have had with the three places for many years. The southwest region will inevitably be in chaos, and industrial and agricultural production will be greatly disrupted.
This will then affect the subsequent war between us and Germany, a real bitterness and hatred between us!
"It's really interesting to think about it. Mussolini announced with great fanfare that he would send troops to the Atlantic to help Germany launch a landing operation on the British Isles. But at home, it seemed that they were discussing with the Germans, and Chairman Chiang began to quietly make small moves.
, ready to hold us back...it’s really hard to predict what will happen next!”
Chen Yu asked puzzledly:
"Are we just going to sit back and watch them get together to make small moves? Now the air forces of the three places combined have more than a thousand fighter planes. Although most of their pilots are trained by us, no one can guarantee whether they will obey orders.
, throw bombs on our heads! Together with the Xiangxi Arsenal, which currently has the largest output, and the Kunming Arsenal, which was built and put into production in 1939, our three allies are not just ordinary people. How will we deal with it once it turns into an armpit?"
"There are no eternal friends in this world, only eternal interests..."
An Yi said with emotion: "I understand this sentence more and more deeply. As long as they want to continue to make money, they will definitely not take the initiative to fall out with us. After all, the things they produce will not be used as traitors and traded with the Japanese."
, only we can digest it!
"Once trade is stopped, the economies of the three places will collapse immediately. Just like the relationship between our Nanhua and the National Government, there is both cooperation and confrontation, and it continues to move forward amidst friction!
"Now I suddenly understand why Zhu Yigong, Zhang Hongluan and Shi Zhen wanted to allocate their most elite troops to us for operations in Central Asia, because most of those troops were sent by us to serve as the main leaders, and they accepted our Anjia
Systematic education in the military.
"After constant deployment and recruitment in the past few years, even Zeng Changhe was sent to Central Asia, basically purging the people we sent to them over the years, and unknowingly regained the power of the army. What a plan...
....”
Just when An Yi shook his head frequently, Shen Fengdao walked in and handed An Yi an urgent message. After reading it, An Yi's face changed and he sneered:
"Just when I was looking for someone to vent my anger, Little Japan took the initiative to get close to me. Isn't it obvious that he wanted to be beaten? Order Huang Xuyi, let me carry out the massive bombing that is being prepared in an orderly manner. All mobile aircraft except jets will be destroyed.
All fighter jets other than fighter jets will be transferred to the Far East and the Korean Peninsula. I must teach the Japanese a lesson on what air supremacy is!"