The marshal's style is similar, and they are all invincible battles, and they are extremely stressed to adjust the preparation period for war and the preparation period for battle.

Chen Jiayou entered the hall, bowed to Song Biao and submitted the cabinet documents to him, saying, "Emperor, the Minister of Finance urgently sent a telegram."

Song Biao said oh, took the telegram and took a look. It was roughly correct to his guess. Ouyang Xi still opposed Zhang Kangren's mixed-level concept, believing that it was too difficult to implement and had no meaning.

Ever since Zhang Kangren proposed his new hybrid system in front of the emperor, these two former and current Finance Ministers have been debated endlessly. Although Zhang Kangren is an old minister, he has a high reputation and is deeply trusted by the emperor, Ouyang Xi is not a general public.

Those of you, let alone the position of the Chancellor of the Finance Department.

Song Biao knew that this field was not what he was good at, not to mention that as a constitutional monarch, the monarch was not suitable to oppose the decisions of his ministers. Unless it was really wrong and the right was not distinguished, the resolutions of the current cabinet minister must also be respected.

In this regard, Song Biao's attitude was silent and not commenting was equivalent to acquiescent Ouyang Xi's opinion. After all, the power was still in Ouyang Xi's hands.

Ouyang Xi opposes the mixed standard system, and also believes that the price of silver may continue to fall. This is not the time to increase silver reserves. When adjusting various legacy issues of the former Chancellor of the Finance Minister, it will shrink the central government's overseas trust investment into foreign exchange.

While treasury bonds, they sold the central government's silver assets, and in addition, they continued to choose long-term contracts to sell silver in the international futures market to hedge against the risks and losses caused by the empire's selling of silver assets.

Although this person is not a banker like Zhang Kangren, he has real talent and knowledge after all. What he is doing and what he still needs to do. As long as the general direction is to avoid risks and sell overseas securities assets, Song Biao will not intend to ask too much

many.

After reading Ouyang Xi's telegram, he replied to the seven words "Decision and responsibility are with each other", and asked Chen Jiayou to reply to the telegram from the Ministry of Finance.

Chen Jiayou made such a move and said, "Your Majesty, the young officers from the Zhili Military Region are waiting outside. Maybe they were so excited that they ran all the way and shouted, but were caught by General Fu outside the door and criticized him.

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Song Biao said with a nod, and replied dissatisfiedly: "It's all a group of battalion commanders and commanders. He shouted outside like a child playing house. He really wanted to criticize him. He asked them to wait half an hour before coming in.

Calm down and have someone send them a chair and sit in the corridor and wait."

Chen Jiayou smirked in his heart, and then he promised to go out.

This matter was done very quickly. As soon as he went out, he asked the people below to sit together, and all sat outside in the corridor for half an hour. Knowing that he was complaining behind his back, Fu Zuoyi had no choice but to set the watch himself.

Just as Chen Jiayou left, Fu Zuoyi taught Wei Lihuang and others a lesson hatefully and said, "Look, let the people from the Intelligence Department complain. If there is such an opportunity in the future, I will take it more firmly."

"Is that grandson!"

Everyone was also angry. Looking at Chen Jiayou's back, they wanted to rush up and beat him together.

After waiting for half an hour, the young officers entered the Baihe Pavilion to meet the emperor under the leadership of Fu Zuoyi.

Song Biao took advantage of this moment to read the book "War Preparation and Implementation of the Battle" in his hand. When all the young officers came in to line up to salute, he put the book aside and asked Fu Zuoyi to give them again.

I sat there, but this time I sat around him and didn't have to wait outside anymore.

He had seen these young officers in front of Song Biao before, some of them had only seen them two years ago, but most of them had only seen them once or twice, and a few had seen them twice.

After roughly looking around, Song Biao was in a crowd and saw Huang Botao, who had been focusing on cultivation in recent years. He felt much better because the young middle and lower-level officers in front of him represented the future of Lu Liang's affairs.

Thinking of this, Song Biao talked about the whole story of the Lushan Conference with these young officers here, saying: "All things start from the cornerstone. The strength of a country's military strength depends not only on national strength, but also on you middle and lower classes.

The Lushan Conference has been held many times, which are generally related to politics, economy, religion and technology. This year we decided to hold such a military symposium. The purpose is obviously not to let those generals and lieutenant generals come for vacation and enjoy life.

We want to invite all you middle and lower-level young officers to come over, speak freely, and find the direction of national military reform and improvement from you, because only you know the problem best, and only you can decide the strength of the country's military strength over the weak. Therefore,

After this meeting is held, you should speak out everything you want and say. Be sure to point out everything you think is wrong. Only in this way can our Chinese military ** continue to develop."

Song Biao said this. Although all the young officers present had some feelings, they all understood that it was not the time to complain in front of the emperor. Everyone nodded silently and said yes, and no one dared to go too far.

Say one thing.

Correspondingly, because the entire Lushan meeting period lasted for two months, Song Biao was not in a hurry to discuss the future of the emperor's affairs with them, the middle and lower-level officers at this time.

Just as we finished reading Marshal Xiafei's book "War Preparation and Implementation", Song Biao made a transition and continued: "We have established the most and best military academies in all countries in the world over the years, with a large number of

Cultivate young officers, because young officers can represent the direction and strength of the world. Because you are young, you can continue to learn and keep up with the pace of development of the times. Marshal Xiafei's book is published quickly in China.

It's been a year, and who among you has carefully studied it?"

Everyone was silent.

In fact, Marshal Xiafei's book "War Preparation and Battle Implementation" has not been highly evaluated within the Imperial Central Defense Forces. First, the military ideas of China and France are different, and second, China has both areas of war preparation and battle implementation.

He is the best field, but no one can speak directly in front of the emperor.

Everyone was silent.

At this time, Wei Lihuang replied to Song Biao: "Report to the emperor, my subordinates have carefully studied the book of Marshal Xiafei. It is generally as our army emphasized, but my subordinates think that the entire war stage should be divided into the early stages.

The national defense period, the preparation period for war, and the final period of the campaign implementation period, especially in the mobilization before the war, my subordinates thought that the analysis conducted by Marshal Xiafei was still too simple."

Song Biao nodded slightly and said, "What you said is still very reasonable, let's continue talking."

Wei Lihuang continued: "The national defense construction period and war preparation period are the responsibility of the general. We are all middle-level and lower-level officers, so we pay the most attention and must pay attention to the implementation stage of the battle. As Marshal Xiafei discussed

The implementation of the battle is not useful compared to our country. The key here depends on two points: one is that China and France have different feelings, and the other is that China and France have different military ideas. France has been competing with Britain and Germany for a long time, and its strength is weaker than both sides, so it is in the military.

In terms of thought, we focus on defense and restriction rather than on the initiative. However, our army, whether weak or strong, actively emphasizes the initiative in control and the rapid and maneuverable attack, to eliminate the enemy by attacking and defeat the enemy.

Therefore, based on the differences between the two points, Marshal Xiafei's book has little enlightenment to our army."

Song Biao applauded and praised, saying, "What you said makes sense, but there is nothing at all. National defense construction and war preparation are by no means the responsibility of the general, but the responsibility of the entire country, especially you.

The responsibilities of middle and lower-level officers. Without your implementation, some military orders from the Central Military Department would be useless. How can national defense construction and war preparations come? Without your feedback from the basics, how will China's affairs be better

Change of direction? Therefore, I think that as middle and lower-level officers, you should be more responsible for national defense construction and war preparations, whether it is in the training of soldiers, daily exercises, tactical running-in and innovation, and the training and guidance of the lieutenant officers.

You all bear the first responsibility of building the Emperor's affairs, and you have no choice but to do so."

Wei Lihuang realized what he said was wrong and immediately admitted his mistake: "The emperor taught the most is that his subordinates are careless."

Song Biao was just taking advantage of the situation and took advantage of this opportunity to emphasize the policy of building the Chinese affairs affairs and the importance of this Lushan Conference. He did not believe that Wei Lihuang was a school official who was not responsible for the work of grassroots officers, and

Wei Lihuang and others continued: "This Lushan Conference is to specifically promote your strength. You usually want to say but can't say anything you don't have the opportunity to say. Everyone should reflect on various problems in their work.

Only by putting forward ideas for improvement can we brainstorm better build the imperial defense. In fact, you can put forward some new ideas and suggestions now."

As soon as Song Biao finished speaking, everyone was excited. At this time, Huang Botao, who was just a captain, couldn't wait to get up and salute, saying, "Your Majesty, I have a sentence under my jurisdiction. I wonder if I can say it?"

Song Biao still admired Huang Botao very much and said, "You talk, there is nothing that cannot be said!"

Huang Botao Station was straight like a telephone pole, and he shouted with a serious expression: "I only have one sentence, please increase the annual service salary and holiday subsidies for the national defense soldiers."

Song Biao nodded slightly and said, "Sit down first and tell the problem more in detail. Just a few words will not solve any problem!"

"yes!"

Huang Botao saluted again, then sat down and continued to propose to Song Biao: "The proportion of our national defense soldiers in the entire army is close to 1/4. On average, one national defense soldiers is among every 4 soldiers, especially the last ten

In 2019, after the end of the Sino-Soviet War, the number of national defense soldiers and young military cadets retained during the campaign increased significantly, and the number of national defense soldiers increased rapidly, but the increase in military expenditure was limited compared with the Sino-Soviet War period, especially the military expenditure of our army.

Only the decline but not the increase, the number of army members is large, and the annual salary of national defense soldiers is only half of that of the navy and air force. In the past, the average income of national defense soldiers was low, and the income of national defense soldiers could also support the family expenses of soldiers. Now the per capita income has increased significantly.

Prices are rising rapidly, and the salary of national defense soldiers has almost no change compared to the previous ten years. Correspondingly, the income of officers has not increased, but officers are still a higher income class after all, while national defense soldiers are only ordinary working class, and

It is the basic force of the Emperor's affairs. If the income of national defense soldiers cannot be improved as soon as possible, it will have a long-term impact on our affairs construction. The most obvious thing is that the admission rate of 152 young military academies in our country in the past three years has been

There is a significant decline. In the past, every young military academy had 4 choices, or even 5 choices, but now it can only choose 2 choices, 3 choices, which is definitely not conducive to the higher-level improvement and maintenance of our army.

staff quality.”

Song Biao nodded and said, "The income of national defense soldiers must be improved. We will focus on this meeting this year. Do you have any other proposals?"

Huang Botao hesitated for a moment and continued: "Reporting to the emperor, my subordinates think that our army certainly has a trend of militaryism, but this should not be the focus of criticism. What we should reflect more on is why the navy and air force do not have a large navy and a large air force.

The trend of thoughts? Soldiers are born with a sense of competition. Our army hopes that the army will be stronger. Their navy should also hope that the navy will be stronger. This is our natural mission and responsibility. The Central Military Department should not be repeated again and again.

Criticize us that there is a trend of thought in the mainland army. Secondly, since the general direction of our military reform has been determined, we should spare no effort to promote it. Although our cavalry units have made great contributions to the country in the past, they cannot cover up the cavalry in the first battle.

After that, the fact that it will be completely eliminated will be suggested that our army be brave enough to bid farewell to the past and to completely transfer all cavalry troops into the patrol army with the determination of a hero to cut off his arm, which will only be used for local public security, patrol, maintenance of unity and internal order.

Third, our army strictly investigated the rebates left by the previous dynasty, but the patrol army has many problems left by it. So far, there are still common phenomena of empty salary, and the military has not strictly rectified it.

Even if the Patrol Army is not the main force of our army, this impact is still very bad and will sooner or later spread back to our main force. The Patrol Army Headquarters and relevant superior generals must be responsible for this."

After he said this, the middle-aged and young officers present seemed very nervous because the issue of national defense soldiers' income had been discussed for a long time and had been talking about it a few years ago, which was not a sharp issue, but the next three were the ones.

The proposal is too sharp.

Song Biao also thought for a while before pointing at Huang Botao in admiration, saying, "Your surnamed Huang is telling the truth and is very brave. There are many senior cavalry commanders, and our army has 14 generals.

Among them, there were 6 cavalrymen, all of whom were meritorious. Even during the Sino-Soviet War, the contribution and sacrifice of the cavalry were the most tremendous. Just say, how could you let these generals from cavalrymen feel?

However, it is impossible not to withdraw. Modern military changes are so cruel. When we fought the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, the biggest gap between the Japanese army and us was in light machine guns. Light machine guns represent grassroots armed forces at the class and platoon level.

The strengthening of firepower is the basis of a small-scale mobile combat theory that emerged during the trench warfare period. The Japanese army thought it was expensive and refused to buy it, but ended up suffering a heavy loss. Looking back at the Sino-Soviet War period, if we did not make a quick decision

We cannot easily defeat the Soviet Red Army if we invest funds and technology to catch up with the trend of mechanized combat. Similarly, if we remove all cavalry units of more than 400,000 people into the patrol army and reduce the proportion of cavalry and national defense forces, our country will

The Central Army has eliminated the CSKA, and even if we do not increase more military expenditures, we can effectively increase the general treatment of national defense soldiers. Combined with the pros and cons, the reform of cavalry is imperative, and this is not something that several cavalry generals want to stop it.

Stopped."

After a moment of pause, Song Biao turned to all the middle and lower-level officers present and encouraged: "The empire's military reform is imperative, and this time the great reform needs to be based on your strength from the bottom.

The promotion of the upper class, so, at this Lushan Conference, I was a middle-level and superior general and officer, but I called you all over. Let's discuss major strategies together, and actively promote the emperor in order to seek the world's first military power.

**The second major in armed forces! As Huang Botao said, we must not only establish a continental army, but also establish a large air force and a large navy, and it is also the most powerful air force in the world and the most powerful big air force in the world.

navy!"

Emperor Song had a very high reputation in the army and the country, which was less than that of Taizu afterwards. As soon as he said this, all the middle and lower-level officers present were particularly excited and enthusiastic.
Chapter completed!