It is said that when Li Xuan decided to establish the model of the Reclamation Regiment to solve the problem of prisoners of war, he never thought that such a strange product as the 29th Reclamation Regiment would appear.
Moreover, there are currently nearly a hundred settlements in the Tang Dynasty. Except for the 29th Reclamation Regiment, no other settlements have had any accidents. Most of them are conscientiously clearing wasteland, farming, and building roads and bridges.
Then wait for the end of the service period or be free to go home after being pardoned!
There is the 29th Reclamation Group out there doing this!
But after Li Xuan saw the whole story of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, he somewhat understood Lu Ping's decision at that time. After the 29th Reclamation Regiment arrived in Lingao, it could not even provide food rations, and then it started to go to sea.
Fishing solves the problem of food rations, but when you catch more fish, it is normal for you to be unable to eat them all and sell them for other food or money.
But the abnormal thing is that Lu Pingfa is too courageous and powerful. In just a few years, he turned the 29th Reclamation Group into a large fishing company.
There are very few companies with more than 3,000 employees, let alone an industry like fishery, even in the textile industry where the labor force is highly concentrated.
The Jiangnan Textile Factory planned to be built by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises in Jiangnan employs less than 3,000 people.
If it was just a small fight, no one would care about the 29th Reclamation Regiment. But the problem is that Lu Pingfa has made this project too big, so big that it scares the generals of the Logistics Department, and it is so big that it requires a single vote from the cabinet.
The civil servants pounced on him like cats that smelled the fishy smell.
This 29th Reclamation Regiment cannot continue to be retained. This is a matter of principle and absolutely cannot be changed, because it will destroy the separation of military and political affairs, the separation of military and commercial affairs, and the separation of political and commercial affairs that Li Xuan has always insisted on!
In addition, someone in the Logistics Department must be responsible for this, and this person in charge cannot be Lu Ping. Although Lu Ping has made great achievements, he is just a small role. The person responsible for this should be
The main officials of the Prisoners of War Department and the senior officials of the Logistics Department also need to shoulder the responsibility for poor supervision.
However, Li Xuan felt that the way the 29th Reclamation Regiment was handled needed to be modified. First of all, although Lu Pingping was still under the management of the military before, he was a retired personnel after all, not an active soldier!
Retired captain and active captain are two different things.
And those prisoners of war are also extraordinary active-duty personnel, which can be seen from the fact that none of these prisoners of war have military ranks!
Therefore, this series of issues must be treated separately!
Li Xuan did not care about other minor issues, but quickly issued instructions. The separation of military and commercial affairs is a matter of principle and cannot be changed!
In addition, the current system of settlement regiments has great flaws, and the Privy Council has been ordered to rectify it so that the settlement regiments can return to the general direction of 'managing prisoners of war' and not engage in other messy things.
As for the 29th Reclamation Corps, since it is already related to the livelihood of thousands of people, after the establishment of the 29th Reclamation Corps is cancelled, the assets of the Reclamation Corps can be transferred to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises can take the lead in establishing a new one.
The fishing company gives priority to hiring prisoners of war from the original settlement regiment.
Basically, the treatment of the 29th Reclamation Regiment is to completely destroy the relationship between it and the military.
The reason why the 29th Reclamation Regiment's problem is difficult is not that its business is big or not, but that it is covered in the skin of the military, even though there is not a single active-duty soldier in it.
After removing the military skin, the 29th Reclamation Regiment can exist as a purely commercial company.
In this way, the problem can be considered initially solved.
As for Lu Pingping, he is a retired soldier. It is hard to say that he is indiscriminate between military and businessmen. Furthermore, Li Xuan also saw that the 29th Reclamation Regiment can be where it is today because of his great efforts.
, and this person will also be the best leader of this purely commercial fishing company in the future.
So Li Xuan just ignored this person and didn't mention it!
Li Xuan personally gave instructions on the solution to this matter, and the people below naturally did not dare to show any slights. Many generals in the Privy Council subsequently held an internal meeting within the army to discuss the management of prisoners of war.
Lieutenant General Lei Wan, the Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room, Director of the Privy Council's Operations Department, slammed the table at this meeting and cursed a large number of Army generals bloody.
Damn, he is busy and exhausted. On the one hand, he has to preside over the work of the war department and prepare for the Huguang War. On the other hand, he has to maintain the situation in the north. In addition, he has to fight wits and courage with the people in the navy and cabinet in the imperial study.
, and these generals, especially the generals in the Logistics Department, actually caused him trouble.
Although he is not from the Logistics Department, strictly speaking, he, the Director of the Operations Department, and the Director of the Logistics Department are at the same level, but he is the Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room!
He is the duty minister in the imperial study room, and the Army is the only minister on duty in the imperial study room. Therefore, even if he is not the serious leader of the army, he is still half a rank higher than other generals.
What's more, he is the representative of the Army in the imperial study. If something happens to the Army, Liu Bagou and the others in the cabinet will be very rude. They will say anything as unpleasant as possible. It is almost said that he condoned the Army's rebellion.
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Then His Majesty was not polite and asked him to go back and sort out the problem of prisoners of war!
Lei Wan is quite passive. His passivity will make his situation in the Imperial Study Room difficult, and his situation in the Imperial Study Room becomes difficult, which basically directly represents the difficult situation of the Army.
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Without him in the imperial study, the people in the navy and cabinet would have swallowed up how much of the army's interests it was!
He looked embarrassed after being criticized in the Imperial Study Room, and after the meeting ended with a sullen face. But in the current meeting, he was naturally not polite and scolded everyone.
In the Army of the Tang Dynasty, Lieutenant General Lei Wan was not the highest-ranking general. Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, Fang Xitong, and Wang Chaohong, four veteran army generals, were also commanders of the First Army. Their prestige in the army was higher than
He is taller.
But they are all famous generals who lead the army outside. In the past two years, they would participate in the affairs of the Privy Council. But now, apart from commanding the troops in combat, they basically do not participate in the internal affairs of the dynasty. They can even hide from the internal affairs of the Privy Council.
hide.
After all, everyone now knows that these generals have made great contributions and have great prestige, but there is a saying that great achievements shake the master, and there is another saying that the birds are hidden behind the bows, and the rabbits are killed and the dogs are cooked!
Everyone is not stupid. We all know that if we continue to act as carelessly as in the past two years and arouse His Majesty's suspicion, then the fate of a large number of the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty will be their fate, so they all started fighting.
The idea of protecting yourself wisely.
Not to mention interfering in the affairs of the government or the Privy Council. Among them, Hao Bainian even asked to resign from the post of commander of the Third Army after the Northern Expedition. Of course, he did not dare to say that he was begging for bones. That was
By slapping Li Xuan in the face, aren't you just showing that you are afraid that I, Li Xuan, will kill the rabbit and kill the dog?
So what Hao Bainian requested was to resign from the Third Army, hoping to return to Beijing and enjoy the glory and wealth!
To put it bluntly, you don’t control the military and just take up a casual position!
Those military commanders with high status and high prestige had an attitude of turning a deaf ear to the outside world and focusing on fighting, which allowed Lieutenant General Lei Wan to control some of the actual rights in the Privy Council as he wished.
With the title of Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room, Lieutenant General Lei Wan is now the boss in the Privy Council!
Anyone can be scolded if caught!
After Lei Wan cursed, he asked the Logistics Department to quickly come up with a new management plan for prisoners of war. Then the Prisoners of War Department would have to thoroughly rectify the situation. In addition, nearly a hundred other settlement regiments would also have to be thoroughly sorted out to eliminate any business activities.
Lei Wan left after scolding everyone. He was very busy and had no time to take care of the mess in the logistics department!
Besides, although he, Lei Wan, is the minister on duty in the imperial study room, if we really want to investigate, he and the head of the logistics department are only on the same level and have no right to manage the logistics department.
The bosses of several other departments were scolded inexplicably, and they left in displeasure, leaving only a few people from the logistics department there, and then you look at me, and I look at you!
Finally, we reached a consensus that Ma Dan, the main leaders of the Prisoners of War Department, must get out!
Just one day later, several main persons in charge of the Prisoners of War Department, including the Director of the Department, Major General, two Deputy Directors, Colonels, and several Lieutenant Colonels were transferred to the reserves!
Immediately, the Army launched a large-scale inventory of the remaining hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and nearly a hundred settlement regiments, and re-improved the settlement regiment system. In addition, it re-stipulated that the leaders of the settlement regiments and several major responsible persons must be active military personnel, and all systems were regulated.
When they are managed within the military system, they cannot be made up of all retired officers as in the past. The military only has a name and lets the reclamation regiments do their own thing. If the trouble comes out, they will be unlucky.
As for the 29th Reclamation Regiment and Lu Pingping, the Army, out of sight and out of mind, directly abolished the establishment of the 29th Reclamation Regiment. Several reserve officers, including Lu Pingping, were all dismissed, and even
They were all directly deprived of their retired military ranks.
Then all the fishing boats, factories and other assets of the 29th Reclamation Group were handed over to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
From then on, the 29th Reclamation Regiment and the military no longer had the slightest connection!
The people from the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises were so amused that they took over all the assets of the 29th Reclamation Group, well, and more than 3,000 employees including Lu Pingping.
In this battle, their civilian system gave the Army a hard slap and forced a major general of the Army to retire from active service. This was a strategic victory.
The officials in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises also belong to the civil service system, so naturally they are in a good mood!
Within a few days, the station of the 29th Reclamation Group was replaced with a new sign: Lingao 29th Fishery Company.
Lu Ping's life changed suddenly, from a reserve captain to an ordinary citizen, and then to a sixth-grade official of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and as the general manager of Lingao Erjiu Fishery Company. The transformation was so great that he himself was astonished!