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Chapter 21 Five-Year Plan

Under the supervision of the United Nations Observer Mission, Montaya's army completed a historic drawdown. The drawdown went unusually smoothly, which greatly surprised foreign observers who had been worried about violent conflicts during the drawdown process.

Military commanders who started from the military separatist regime, such as Mountbatten, Makunda, Kaxito, Zhou Jiping and others, gave up their army and military power and switched to politics. For the first time, Muntaya's military power was handed over to the Montaya Parliament and the President in accordance with the constitution.

and the National Defense General Staff, which are jointly under the jurisdiction of

After the reduction, the number of regular troops in Montaya is about 22,500. Among them, 20,000 belong to Montaya's regular army, and the other 2,000 belong to the military police jointly commanded by the President and the Parliament. Their duty is to supervise the garrison.

While the troops in Montaya have violated the constitution, they are also responsible for guarding the five munitions warehouses in Montaya. If any troops attack the munitions warehouses without the permission of Parliament or the President, these military police will be in advance.

Blow up munitions warehouses to prevent a possible coup by the military

In addition, Mountbatten, Zhou Jiping, Makunda, and Muntaya each have a company of special guards. According to the constitution, these four special guards are only responsible for the security of the above three people and the parliament. Their authority

Any attack by the gendarmerie against the three persons mentioned above, the Parliament, the gendarmerie and the Guard, will be considered a coup d'état and will be illegal and severely punished.

According to the revised constitution, because Mountbatten and others played a special role in Montaya's revolution, and in order to restrict military coups legislatively, the new constitution passed by Montaya's parliament gave the country's president, deputy

The President and Prime Minister have extremely high authority. As long as they have not committed particularly serious crimes such as subversion of the country, crimes against humanity, war crimes, etc., no law enforcement agency has the power to restrict their freedom and try them. Even if these people have committed these crimes, they

Public trials can only be conducted by the Constitutional Court, and the death penalty cannot be imposed.

This is the privilege granted by the law to the head of state, and it is also a necessary means to relieve the head of state from worries about governing. Imagine that a head of state manages a country with a population of millions, or even tens of millions, even if the political opponents he offends only account for a few ten thousandths of the population.

Or a few parts per million, then the absolute population of this group of political opponents is also a huge number. If the country's constitution does not grant certain privileges to the head of state, I am afraid that no one can manage the country with confidence.

In addition to the regular army, Muntaya also has a police force of nearly 10,000 people, which is responsible for the management of urban and rural security and transportation matters. In addition, Muntaya has also established the reserve system as a basic national policy. Currently, there are reserve armies registered across the country.

As many as 60,000 people. Of course, among these 60,000 people, 20,000 have been transferred to the field army, and the other 40,000 have become engineering soldiers. They have basically laid down their weapons, and they are just serving as a transitional period for Montaya's economy.

A new force in construction services

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the above-mentioned troops, there is also a more special force. They are the former Northern Army troops who committed war crimes during the war. They were voted by the Montaya Parliament. These plaintiffs are affiliated with Masuari.

The troops have committed war crimes against the civilian population of Nglo. For this reason, they will serve in Nglo for five to ten years. The specific term of imprisonment will be determined jointly by the special court sent by the Montaya Parliament and the Nglo District Court.

The army is a special organization, even the troops that have become engineers and field soldiers are the same. In the past two months after the war, Montaya's regular army and 60,000 reserve troops have been busy building roads.

Construction of water conservancy projects. Before Montaya's major national policies were fully determined, they had already taken action ahead of the entire country to distribute relief grains, renovate villages and towns destroyed by war, and maintain national order. You can see this everywhere

At this time, the people of Montaya were still in the process of waiting and watching and passively working in exchange for food rations.

In the third month after Montaya's political situation was completely stabilized, Montaya's new government proposed Montaya's first five-year economic development plan. At the same time, it was announced, as well as the Muntaya government's governing program, domestic and foreign affairs, etc.

Related policies

The economic plan was explained by Zhou Jiping, which included: developing agriculture and various plantation and breeding industries in the two river basins, developing crude oil and other mineral deposits, protecting animals and grassland river resources, building roads, railways, water conservancy, and developing tourism.

industry, vigorously develop international trade, develop medical, cultural, educational and health services, reduce infant mortality, etc.

Before formulating this plan, Zhou Jiping, Xidogu, and relevant personnel in the government conducted nearly two months of research on Muntaya's current economic situation. It was through this survey that Zhou Jiping had more confidence in the original proposal to Sir Henry.

The promised goal of achieving food self-sufficiency in three years is certain because in Zhou Jiping's view, Muntaya has been begging for food with a golden rice bowl.

Among other things, the food crops that Muntaya can now produce include: wheat, rice, corn, millet, sorghum, potatoes, etc., as well as some specialty crops, such as cassava, plantains, dates, yam, and edible plantains.

However, due to the impact of war and warlord rule, the scale and level of farming of these food crops are problematic, and economic benefits cannot be achieved at all.

In addition, Montaya also has many tropical-specific cash crops such as: cotton, sisal, pyrethrum, peanuts, oil palm, cashew nuts, sesame, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, tobacco leaves, natural rubber, etc. like sisal

Zhou Jiping saw these two crops, pyrethrum and pyrethrum, when he first arrived at the Mongolian tribe. However, these two economic crops were only used by the tribes to protect settlements and prevent mosquitoes, and did not reflect their economic value at all.

In fact, these cash crops have been cultivated in Muntaya for a long time. The earliest ones can be traced back to the colonial period. However, with the political chaos and warlord separatism, these cash crops can often only be cultivated along the coast or in some powerful villages.

are grown on private estates. Otherwise, even if these crops can grow, they are often not available to growers.

Similarly, Muntaya's breeding and animal husbandry industry is also an extensive and backward development model that cannot be talked about in terms of scale or level.

The reasons for this situation, in addition to the chaotic political situation, are cultural and technological reasons, such as sisal and pyrethrum. Most Montaya people have never thought that these two items are of any use. A few people know these.

Things can be exchanged for foreign exchange for the country, but due to various reasons, they cannot or are unwilling to say what they want. In a place where even their lives may not be saved, who would put effort into planting cash crops?

After investigation, Zhou Jiping and others found that as long as the Montaya government provides some simple training to farmers and provides some practical tools and seeds, as long as the rainy season comes, Montaya's planting industry will undergo great changes. Of course, the prerequisite

It is necessary to identify a few industries and concentrate efforts to see results in the shortest time. This has exposed another problem, that is, the lack of talent.

Montaya's national conditions are very special. When the nation gained independence in the 1960s, some colonial descendants who had feelings for Montaya and made contributions were unfairly treated because of their overly radical way of thinking. Many of the colonial descendants were lay people.

After being killed and wounded, they had to leave Montaya in tears. This was the case for the Rice family. Not only these colonial descendants, but also all the indigenous people who had some relationship with the colonial descendants were harmed and expelled, like Frank and Eric.

, it was at this time that he was brought to Europe by his adoptive parents.

However, the colonial descendants took away not only their personal wealth, but also advanced technical knowledge and ideas, which directly caused the extreme shortage of other talents in Muntaya's subsequent government except military talents, and even electricity and water supply.

, urban management, communications and other industries, Muntaya was unable to cultivate talents in the country, so the military government at that time had no choice but to hire foreign employees from overseas at high prices to do these things in order to ensure the safety of these foreign and skilled talents.

Security, this directly led to the military government having to propose a series of laws to protect and preferential treatment of foreigners. Therefore, the consequences of Zhou Jiping's killing of Slade were indeed very serious.

In response to this situation, the government has proposed policies to attract skilled foreigners to find employment in Montaya and help Montaya with its economic construction; to make rational use of foreign capital and encourage foreign investment in Montaya; and to invite foreign capital to contract in Montaya.

Engineering, construction of various projects

For example, Montaya plans to use the abundant water of the Natni and Corinne rivers to build large barrages in the upper reaches to regulate floods and avoid flooding in the rainy season. The rivers dry up quickly in the dry season, making it difficult for humans and animals to drink water.

At the same time, the accumulated water can also be used to generate electricity for Montaya. For hydropower projects like this, Montaya must rely on external forces.

Not only hydropower, but also roads, railways, ports, etc., these engineering projects are completely beyond Muntaya’s existing capabilities. Without the help of external forces, without attracting foreign funds and foreigners, Muntaya’s existing strength alone can’t be met.

, if you want to do these things, just don’t even think about it.

Without investigation, there is no right to speak! The five-year development plan led by Zhou Jiping and Xidogu is very detailed. It requires numbers and evidence, and many things have directly touched the hearts of the congressmen sitting here. Zhou Jiping

The nearly two hours of eloquent speech on the policy agenda did not make everyone feel boring at all. When he got to the point of excitement, Zhou Jiping was interrupted by applause many times.


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