After reviewing the plan, the Minister of the Army and the Navy looked at each other. The Minister of the Army, Yamanashi Hanzo, walked to stand in front of Takahashi Korekiyo with a sullen face. Prime Minister Kiyura Keigo thought that Yamanashi Hanzo was going to angrily reprimand Takahashi.

Qing, but unexpectedly Yamanashi Hanzo bowed and said: "Please ask the Ministry of Finance and the headquarters to jointly review the budget."

Kiyoura Kuigo breathed a sigh of relief. He already had a picture in his mind. There were several rows of tables on the left and right sides of the conference room. The base camp was occupied by the Navy on one side and the Ministry of Finance on the other side. Each table was filled with documents.

, behind each table are relevant personnel from different departments. There are two tables in the middle. When talking about one of them, relevant personnel from both sides come up to communicate.

Or each side may send personnel to take full responsibility for arrangements, and as questions are asked, there will be people in the back row to provide answers.

However, Takahashi Korekiyo calmly replied: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, the amount of the war budget is too large. The first-stage budget is already twice the total national budget last year. At this stage, it is impossible to determine how much overseas bonds can be sold. If

The base camp forces the demand to meet the tax and domestic fundraising needs to reach last year's 250, which will inevitably lead to economic collapse. If more currency is issued in this case, rice riots will break out."

Kiyoura Kuigo didn't know how to answer when he heard these cold figures. After thinking for a moment, he asked the Minister of the Army Yamanashi to return to his seat, and then asked Takahashi, "Takahashi-kun, what do you think is the appropriate tax increase ratio?"

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"At this stage, the tax can be increased by up to 29%."

The gap between 29 and 250 is too big, and Yamanashi Hanzao doesn't know how to coordinate. After thinking about it for a while, Yamanashi Hanzao said: "Then please send personnel from the base camp and the Ministry of Finance to introduce the basic situation."

Although it was unwise for the Prime Minister to jump down and preside over the meeting in person, Kiyoura Keigo knew that if he couldn't make a judgment himself, it would be impossible to make a quick decision.

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None of the three ministers objected, they agreed to meet at two o'clock in the afternoon and went their separate ways.

At 1:30, everyone from both sides arrived. Kiyoura Kuigo simply held a meeting directly. The 6th Army personnel immediately began to introduce the idea, "After the first phase of recruitment, the 6th Army will recall all soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers who have retired within 5 years from the reserve force.

.The strength of the 6th Army has been restored to 470,000. The establishment of the Kwantung Army will not be restored for the time being. The strength of the 20 divisions of the empire is recovering rapidly. The second phase of recruitment has begun. Soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers who have retired within 10 years, and officers under 40 years old will be restored.

Active duty. We can recruit another 190,000 officers and soldiers. According to the combat plan, our army will maintain 1.5 million soldiers on the front line to meet the needs of the war. Therefore, in the second phase, we need to recruit another 840,000 new soldiers. We also need to recruit 500,000 reserves.

Start training. Personnel expenses are calculated based on three months per person, average military pay of 15 yen, firearms and bullets of 200 yen, and bedding and uniforms of 25 yen. Two million troops, the most basic needs, 500 million yen."

Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo also has relevant documents in front of him. In 1922, Japan's national budget was 1.7 billion yen. The budget of the Sixth Army was 256 million yen, and the navy budget was 397 million yen. The base camp plan

The 2 million Japanese Army has not yet been deployed, and the recruitment alone costs 500 million yen.

6 Military personnel continued: "According to the combat plan, in next year's war, the number of artillery pieces needs to be increased to 3,800. The number of various artillery shells is required to be 2 million rounds. The current inventory of bullets is 1 billion rounds, and the number of reserve bullets is 10 billion rounds. It is necessary

Produce 9 billion rounds.”

Kiyoura Keigo understood immediately. Takahashi Korekiyo said that the amount of the budget was twice the total national budget last year. Two million artillery shells. Even if one artillery shell costs an average of 100 yen, this is 200 million. The bullet price is 0.25 yuan.

Even if it is based on 8 billion rounds of ammunition, the price will be reduced by half to 1 billion yen after the general mobilization.

This is already 1.7 billion yen. When other expenses are added up, although there is still room for reduction from 1.7 billion yen, this space is not large. Even if it only requires 3 billion yen, the Japanese government cannot afford it.

If Wu Youping could see the situation in Japan, he would probably lament that the Northeastern government's system is superior.

Since the Tohoku government was established just a few years ago, there is no privileged class. Even if there is a very small amount, its proportion in the Northeast economy is so low that it can be ignored. There are so many powerful people in Japan that even the Prime Minister cannot touch them in their base camp.

.If anyone wants to touch the property of these people during the war, these people will be killed immediately. Therefore, the mobilization base in Northeast China is naturally much wider than that in Japan.

Another major advantage of the Northeast government is the sufficient supply of grain. Now that the autumn harvest in the Northeast has been completed, "In 1922, the Northeast and Inner and Inner Mongolia regions produced 80 billion kilograms of grain. Calculated with 40 million people, the per capita grain was 2,000 kilograms. The edible oil production was 30 kilograms per capita.

Meat, 30 kilograms per person.

The Northeast government dares to implement a general war at this stage because this food can definitely be eaten until the harvest is completed next autumn. The short-term reduction in industrial production remuneration will affect the urban population. As long as the rationing system is implemented for the urban population, life will be different.

Difficult, but no big problems.

Of the current 40 million people in the Northeast, 20 million are immigrants. They have homes in the customs, and their political reliability is much lower than the 20 million people who have taken root in the Northeast. The Northeast Army has 2 million on active duty and 2 million in the countryside or in factories for regular training.

As a reserve force, more than 1.2 million of the 20 million new immigrants must come out. This is the biggest problem facing the government.

In the first stage of the victory, the new immigrants' reaction to the victory was very clear. They were happy to see the victory, but they were extremely resistant to their children serving as soldiers.

Comrades from the Demographic Bureau introduced the situation and sighed: "Now it seems that the influence of schools is too great. Many young people join the army and sign up together with their classmates. Although new immigrants also have comprehensive compulsory education and compulsory literacy.

However, in two years, it has not been able to penetrate the masses. There are only 480,000 new immigrant members who have signed up. Of these, 45% signed up with their classmates and 44% signed up with local youths in factories and farms. Those

The registration ratio that makes up the village is only 11. Moreover, some new immigrant families learned that their children had signed up to join the army, so they tried to find their children. Because the road was closed in time, the impact was finally limited. Some parents even ran to the government gates and

Cadres are seeking death in front of the department, and the impact is very bad. Some of those who have gone too far have been arrested, which has indeed caused some negative effects. If we follow this progress, our recruitment gap may be more than 800,000."

Senior government cadres were speechless for a moment. The Northeast Army's combat effectiveness relies on a strong organization and good training of soldiers who have joined the 5th Army, and the results have been remarkable. However, the current results are based on volunteers who joined the 5th Army, rather than through

Capture Dindin and organize an army.

If it were peacetime, we could still figure it out slowly, but the current situation has no such leisure. The senior cadres have all held meetings in their respective departments, and they really can't think of a way.

Wu Youping saw that everyone was silent, so he could only lower the standard and asked the acting chief of staff Zhong Yifu who was present at the meeting. Zhong Yifu thought for a moment and came up with the bottom line, "At least 400,000 more people must be recruited. The shortfall will be from the northeast.

Recruit 1 more. Our army's troops in Shanhaiguan 1, if the second phase of the battle goes smoothly, most of the new troops can participate in the defense, which can liberate part of the force. Recruit 400,000 new troops from the new immigrants,

can not be less anymore."

400,000 is a lot less than 800,000, but 400,000 is still a lot. Wu Youping glanced at the Central Committee members. They all frowned, and some of the impatient ones even sighed slightly. But it cannot be strengthened. This is the bottom line. How can we do this?

How to inspire these people's determination to join the army without breaking the bottom line?

Finally, Minister of Personnel Xu Jia broke the silence, "I would like to make a suggestion. Although it can help people volunteer to join the army, it will have negative effects."

Everyone looked at Xu Jia expectantly, and Xu Jia said: "When the personnel department was recruiting people, they found that some people applied for impure purposes. They wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to join government organizations to change their identities and take revenge.

Others are the type of negative incentives. These people who fled to the Northeast will have some hatred for their hometown. If we tell them that after we defeat Japan, we will liberate the country and give them the opportunity to eliminate local tyrants and evil gentry in their hometown... through class hatred,

It is possible for us to mobilize some people."

There was a sigh in the conference room. The Northeast government has never been shy about class contradictions and has never been soft on suppressing local tyrants and evil gentry and attacking black-hearted capitalists. However, class struggle is not about physical elimination. Xu Jia can grasp the degree of it, but like this

There are bound to be some problems with the recruitment model, and they are political issues.

Everyone couldn't think of any other way, so they looked at Acting Chief of Staff Zhong Yifu. Zhong Yifu had a solemn expression on his square face. Just when everyone thought he would think about it for a long time, they heard Zhong Yifu say, "I agree.

Taking class struggle as the bottom line for mobilization, we must never break through this bottom line. The political education of our army is in place, and I believe that we can educate our comrades well."

Zhong Yifu was the political commissar of the Northeast Army. With his statement like this, everyone naturally had nothing to say and assigned tasks.

After discussing this matter, Wu Youping's pressure dropped sharply. Taking advantage of the fact that the responsible officials from Zhong Yifu and the industrial department were present, he asked about the arrangements for the latest report.

Zhong Yifu had a brief exchange with Zhuang Jiaxiong, director of the Department of Industry, and briefly introduced the two major difficulties at present, "First, there is a shortage of trucks and insufficient transportation capacity. If we want the troops to withdraw at a moment's notice, the number of trucks needs to be 10 times the current number. Even if

It’s done. North Korea’s roads don’t support so many trucks. Let’s do our best on this part. Another difficulty is the Yalu River defense line. The firepower support point of this defense line is designed to be able to defend against 250mm siege guns.

.If you want to defend against the enemy's siege artillery, you must have heavy artillery with a range that exceeds the enemy's siege artillery. Other fortifications also need to be able to defend against the Japanese 150-caliber heavy artillery. Our army has air force superiority and its reconnaissance power is better than Japan's. It must be within 100 days.

Complete this defense line that can station 1 million troops. As long as it is completed, our army's victory in the third phase of the operation will be fundamentally guaranteed."

Zhuang Jiaxiong bit his lip and was temporarily speechless. The border between China and North Korea is 1,334 kilometers long. The defense line consists of three parts: the obstacle zone, the main defense zone and the rear position, with a depth of 35 to 75 kilometers.

The obstacle areas are mainly minefields, barbed wire and a system known as "dragon teeth" (multiple rows of pyramidal reinforced concrete piles).

The front edge of the main defense zone is located tens to hundreds of meters behind the obstacle zone and is equipped with reinforced concrete and steel armored machine guns, artillery fortifications, command posts, observation posts, personnel shelters, vehicle caves, ammunition depots, material depots, etc.

The rear position is located several kilometers to tens of kilometers behind the main defense zone. It is mainly a reserve personnel shelter, a reserve vehicle cave and a combat readiness material warehouse. A 120-305mm fortress-like long-range heavy artillery group.

There are a large number of airports 15 kilometers behind the rear positions, providing reconnaissance and bombing operations for the fortress group.

The characteristics of the Yalu River Defense Line are that most of the fortifications are small and simple in structure, but there are as many as 18,860 of them. It is planned to use 9.31 million tons of concrete and 350,000 tons of steel.

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At present, the construction of Line 1 of Yalu River 60 has been completed, but the construction in mountainous areas is still in full swing. In order to speed up the construction progress, the Industry Department even produced a 10-wheel large-capacity cement mixer truck. This kind of vehicle can move more than 100 meters per day Concrete is provided at the construction site.

However, the time required to produce a 10-wheel cement truck of this type is 10 times that of an ordinary truck, and it also requires the mobilization of engineers and skilled workers with the highest technical level.

Most of the stones and river sand needed for the crusher were imported from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union also made requirements. Since the Soviet Union still had steel needs in 1923, the steel traded in raw materials must be traded on time.

Several steel-making cities in Northeast China were expected to produce 1.05 million tons of steel in 1922. After providing 350,000 tons of steel to the Soviet Union, only 700,000 tons of steel were actually available. However, in order to increase imports from the Soviet Union, the peace treaty had to be completed. All we could do was wait. In July 1923, two new steelmaking plants and the second phase of three steelmaking plants were completed to increase steel production by 750,000 tons.

Zhuang Jiaxiong said to Zhong Yifu: "The day after tomorrow, the Industrial Department will hand over the progress of the project completed within 90 days to Chief Wu."

Zhong Yifu nodded. Zhuang Jiaxiong did this not to show his temper, nor to cause division. According to the system, the General Staff Headquarters made a request, which was approved by He Rui and handed over to the government department for execution. At this time, He Rui had to solve an urgent problem. Directly let the General Staff and the Central Committee members of the government hold a meeting together.
Chapter completed!