New Warlords 1909

People's newspapers, public opinion, and public opinion generally hold praises, thinking that this is the first government that truly considers the people for thousands of years, and it is also the first government that cares about the life and death of ordinary people in this way.If such a government does not gain the support of the people, what kind of government would have such qualifications?Only in the current affairs commentary newspaper, there were some worried voices.These voices are not opposed to tax exemption, but are worried that the government's sudden exemption of these taxes will inevitably reduce the country's fiscal revenue and affect the country's construction and development.

In fact, the idea of ​​exempting land tax has been in Hua Fei's mind for a long time, and it was a step in his series of land reform plans.It's just that the land reform has been temporarily shelved due to various reasons, but this plan to exempt land tax has been brewing.

Since the land tax has always been one of the main revenues of the Beiyang government, and even an important fiscal revenue of the autonomous region government at the time, this plan has not been implemented.However, with the overall development of the country's industry and commerce, the proportion of a series of tax sources such as industrial and commercial tax, customs tax, mineral resource tax, public asset investment income, and personal income tax has increased. Now the proportion of land tax in the national finance is gradually decreasing.Now with the opportunity of this drought, Hua Fei decided to gradually launch it at the right time.

The important areas related to people's livelihood have nothing to do with food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, medical care, etc., but the root of everything is food.The people depend on food, and if there is no food, people may even starve to death. All other constructions and reforms are bullshit!Therefore, the issue of food is also the top priority of Hua Fei and the Nanjing government.

Some people oppose the abolition of land taxes, pointing out that these taxes are used to develop the country's economy and can accelerate the country's construction in an all-round way.We use the sacrifice of one or even two generations in exchange for the overall rise of the country, so that future generations can live happily in a strong and prosperous country!

Hua Fei scolded this as bullshit at the time, descendants have their own blessings, Hua Fei's mission is never to sacrifice anyone, never to give up anyone, he has to do it, let the contemporary people have the happiness of the contemporary people.This is his Hua Fei, and it is also the responsibility of the current government.Parents live in a happy country. Will their children have to suffer disaster and pain?If this is the case, then these bastards are too incompetent!

Exempting the five-year land tax in the disaster-stricken areas is only the first step of Hua Fei's comprehensive construction of a strong and happy country.In the past, Hua Fei believed that a strong country must have a strong military, a strong economy, and even tough diplomacy.But then Hua Fei's point of view changed, especially after seeing the child in the disaster area, Hua Fei added a key element of a strong country into a key word, that is happiness.Every citizen of this country lives happily in this land and is proud and proud of their country.

294 Canadian Chinese Exclusion

This unprecedented drought.The test of the new Nanjing Central Committee is also a test of a country's ability to deal with crises.When Hua Fei established a strategic grain reserve, many people raised objections.Because the current grain is not abundant at all, and the price is still very high.Instead of storing the grain saved between the teeth, it is better to sell it on the international market and exchange it for real money.Not only is it convenient for storage, but also there is no need to invest in hardware facilities such as granaries.No matter how you look at it, even within the Baath Party, Hua Fei's decision is generally regarded as a foolish government.Many impulsive representatives even went to Hua Fei's residence to seek an interview in person, insisting on admonishing the President face to face.No matter what the final result is, the methodical implementation of the results of the strategic grain reserve is very illustrative.

And just less than a year later, the huge advantages of the strategic grain reserve plan, which was considered to be a foolish government, quickly became apparent.In the face of this year's nationwide severe drought, the importance of food, a strategic material related to life and death, has been widely realized.No matter how much real money you have, you can't buy food in China.However, the food supply in the world is already tight. Seeing that you are short of food in China, you are always asking for prices.Compared with the price of selling grain at the beginning, that is nothing.The gap is not even a tiny bit.Only now did people realize how forward-looking and strategic Hua Fei's decision was.Those in the Ba'ath Party and even the central government who admire Hua Fei's military accomplishments are now even more admirable in their hearts. Their president has wisdom far beyond that of ordinary people in terms of national strategic direction. Has an advanced strategic vision.

However, it's not just these people who don't know, even Hua Fei himself, the original intention of establishing strategic food and other material reserves was for the not-too-distant World War II.Who would have thought that this strategic reserve system would play a role in this nationwide severe drought shortly after its operation, saving countless lives. Its importance and significance are far beyond the imagination of people who are not worried about the food crisis in future generations .

After food and clothing, etiquette is known. On the road to comprehensively building the country, the first thing any government faces is to solve the problem of food and clothing for everyone.The understanding of the word food and clothing is also very simple, that is, to eat enough, with fragrant white rice, and not to starve to death.You can dress warmly, with coarse clothes, and you won't freeze to death.As long as you can do these two points, you can basically create a prosperous age in China's thousands of years of history.

Although the country's financial resources are limited, and although the strategic food reserve is not much, Hua Fei still goes to battle in person.Command and mobilize all national forces to fight the drought with the power of the entire country. Even if the consequences of the drought cannot be eliminated, the impact can be minimized.

The National Defense Force's direct involvement in disaster relief once again demonstrated that the National Defense Force's combat effectiveness is not only reflected on the battlefield, but also satirizes those so-called National Defense Forces that can only kill people. It proves that Hua Fei's conclusion on the nature of the National Defense Force is for the integrity of the territory. safety and dignity, and the right to life of citizens.Drought is also threatening the lives of many citizens. It is obviously powerless to rely on the local government's disaster relief alone.As a result, the Wehrmacht was obliged to go into battle.

The soldiers of the National Defense Forces who had just completed their recruit training and the combat troops of the National Defense Forces of the other five armies were all ordered to go into disaster relief. The number of people used for disaster relief was not even lower than the number used by the central government to quell the southern rebellion.Those veterans who should have retired this year have also postponed their retirement, forming veteran battalions one after another, extending their service period, and returning to their hometowns until all disaster relief tasks are completed.

Numerous National Defense Force soldiers not only help local villagers carry water and transport food.Solve the most fundamental livelihood problems.More people are building vigorous and large-scale water conservancy projects in various parts of the disaster area.All water conservancy projects approved by the government have invested a lot of manpower and started construction in an all-round way.In an era when machines were scarce or even completely absent, the sight of tens of thousands of people gathering to dig a reservoir was a vast and majestic scene that could make people's blood surge and their hearts surge.

With the recovery of a large number of people's physical strength, I saw those children who had never met before, sweating profusely for their hometown and to prevent them from suffering disasters in the future.People can't sit still, anyway, the crops are almost all over, instead of resting at home, why not work with those dolls.All the villagers who could walk were all mobilized to join the mighty army of repairing libraries and building dams.Strong people are good at work, and women are even more unyielding to men. Children have the weight of children, and those children who are too young can also use cloth pockets to pocket dirt little by little.Unless the old people have bad legs and feet, they are absolutely ashamed to stand by and watch.Even those old people who are too old will boil water and make tea at the fighting site, so that these sweating dolls will no longer drink the cold raw water.

No one mobilized, no one organized, and almost the people in the drought-stricken area were driven by this atmosphere, and they all threw themselves into the earth-shattering battle to transform the mountains and rivers.If you want to be lazy, hide at home and not work.Not only your relatives will not spare you, but the whole village, I am afraid that you will never be able to stay, and you will be looked down upon and shamed by pointing at your back for the rest of your life.

On this dry land, it is not only the 30 soldiers of the National Defense Forces who are fighting the drought, but also the people in the disaster areas, the [-] million sons and daughters of the whole of China, and the big family of the Chinese nation composed of countless overseas Chinese. .

After mobilizing the army to rescue the disaster, the disaster situation in various places has improved significantly. At least the reports of those starving to death have not appeared again.Although most of the grain harvests are poor, there are also some areas where some grain crops can recover to a certain extent during the disaster relief and seedling protection campaign. Although the harvest will eventually be affected, the situation of no harvest will not occur.

But Hua Fei was not satisfied with that.In addition to doing these tasks, Hua Fei also made arrangements and plans for the long-term plans in the future.Although 1 reasons and excuses can be found, the lack of early warning of the drought and the obvious slowness and lag in the government's response to the drought, Hua Fei cannot shirk the responsibility brought about by these problems.

After all, droughts are not like earthquakes, and the problems they expose are completely different.Drought lends itself to a slow process, and no one knows when it will rain.Maybe the drought is still very serious today, but maybe it will suddenly rain heavily tomorrow.The so-called drought can be resolved immediately.An earthquake is a violent and sudden disaster. Once the earthquake begins, all disaster relief efforts are a race against time.The faster you react, the more people will be saved.If you don't save them, let alone rain, even if you shoot, those people under the ruins are still hopeless.

At present, except for the northeast region, the country has basically completed the unification, but in many places, only the central inspectors have been dispatched.Most of the government agencies and members are the original people, and the efficiency and work style basically follow the old habits. This is also a fundamental reason for the serious lag of the drought.

In addition, although Hua Fei directly controls the three major intelligence agencies, it has played an extremely important role in Hua Fei's grasp of various interests.But in the field of people's livelihood, these intelligence agencies have no right to intervene or ask questions.If Hua Fei expands the authority of an intelligence agency to the political field of people's livelihood, it will definitely allow Hua Fei to control the intelligence of local people's livelihood more quickly and accurately.But one of the biggest problems is that such an intelligence agency has too much authority, and the living environment of the terrorist spies that comes from it deviates from Hua Fei's ideal of building a happy country.

So in the end, Hua Fei chose to speed up the reorganization of the local government, strengthen the efficiency of the local government, and began to comprehensively improve the various rules and regulations of government agencies, and comprehensively promote the political reform of the country.Only when political reform is at the forefront and a clean and efficient government is created, can economic construction be efficient and move forward healthier.

In other respects, Hua Fei also focused on making two other deployments.The first is to establish the National Meteorological Center to formally prepare for the research and construction of national weather forecasts, providing evidence that can be relied on for droughts, floods and other climates.Although it is very difficult to accurately forecast the weather at present, it is possible to start this research and related infrastructure.

The other is the idea of ​​starting the two main rivers of China, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.Building large dams can not only mobilize water sources, expand irrigation areas, prevent droughts, reduce floods, but also generate electricity.Provide huge and cheap energy for the development of industry and the electrification of life.Although hydropower still has certain disadvantages in later generations, it is undeniable that hydropower is not only the most economical, but also the safest and most efficient clean energy.

Hua Fei, who built the generator set for the hydropower station, was not worried.With the existence of Nikola Tesla, the electrical superman, as early as 1895, he manufactured generator sets for the Niagara Power Station in the United States, and that power station was still one of the world's famous hydropower stations until a hundred years later.The difficulty lies in China's two major mother rivers, whether it is the Yellow River or the Yangtze River. If you want to build a hydropower station here, the difficulty is not as simple as building a dam.However, China currently only builds hydropower stations, which are only small hydropower stations in some reservoirs and some tributary water veins.

Another key reason is that due to China's terrain, most hydropower stations can only be built in the middle and upper reaches of these two rivers.According to China's current industrial status and development trend, most industries with huge power consumption and demand are located in industrial cities such as coastal areas.The Yangtze River is better. After all, the industrial cluster centered on Wuhan is gradually taking shape, but even so, the demand is far from the minimum design power generation.

If a power station with a huge investment cannot sell electricity, it is just reduced to the role of a giant dam, which is really a huge waste.Therefore, if we want to build hydropower stations in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, we need supporting long-distance transmission lines. This investment is much larger than the construction of the power station itself.

Such a huge investment is absolutely unaffordable for the current China.Therefore, in the planning documents that Huafei handed over to the cabinet for deliberation, within ten years, Huafei only planned to build two power stations.Moreover, the design of the power station needs to reserve generator sets, and gradually increase the construction of generator set modules according to the demand.The scientific research work on long-distance transmission lines is all handed over to Tesla's research team.Together with the research on generator sets, it will become the research focus of the most core research center in China for a long time to come.

Just when China was fully engaged in drought relief work and people were busy with water conservancy construction, unpleasant voices came from the world again.Canada's top federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act this year.This bill stipulates that except for special circumstances such as businessmen, diplomatic officials, and international students, all Chinese are not allowed to enter Canada.Moreover, this bill is not only limited to Chinese citizens, even Chinese with British nationality are prohibited from entering Canada.

This is blatant discrimination. Although the phenomenon of foreign Chinese exclusion has been around for a long time, this kind of discrimination against Chinese citizens and even Chinese in Canada has once again made Hua Fei feel very hurt.It is foreseeable that after the bill is promulgated and implemented, even the Chinese who stay in Canada will be discriminated against to some extent, and thus survive in an inferior society.

Looking at this simple bill, businessmen are doing business and sending money to Canada, so they don't prohibit it.Diplomats basically have special rights, so they are not prohibited.In a sense, international students also send money, so they are also on the green light list.Canadians really think that money is the highest standard. This bill prohibits Chinese people but not money. Its abominable side, even people from other countries, are somewhat contemptuous.

Hua Fei's reaction this time is different from the last time when the Macau Jebsen incident happened. After all, there are still countless overseas Chinese living in Canada.The use of very tough measures will inevitably have an impact on the lives of these overseas wanderers.So even though he was still on the front line of disaster relief, Hua Fei still took time to rush back to Nanjing to hold a special meeting on this incident.

After the meeting, the Chinese government officially issued a statement stating that it would respond to Canada's Chinese Exclusion Act.The first is to express great disappointment with the decision of the Canadian government and respond in accordance with relevant international laws.One, terminate all diplomatic relations with Canada and withdraw all diplomatic personnel.Didn't you allow our diplomats to enter Canada?But if we Chinese are banned from entering Canada, and we send ambassadors to your country, why is it necessary for us to establish diplomatic relations with you?This is the answer given by the spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs in response to a reporter's question.

Second, cut off all business relations with Canada, and prohibit all Chinese businessmen from going to Canada to do business and invest.And issued a call to Chinese and overseas Chinese around the world to terminate cooperation and trade with Canadian or Canadian businessmen.

Third, Chinese students are prohibited from studying in Canada, and all government-sponsored international students who have already studied in Canada are recalled and transferred to other countries to continue their studies.For students studying in Canada privately, the Chinese government provides all assistance and convenience for transferring to other countries, and provides a transfer fund.

Fourth, in accordance with the principle of reciprocity in international relations, China announced that from the day after the announcement of this announcement, all Canadians, including non-Canadian citizens of Canadian origin, are prohibited from entering China, but Canadian businessmen are allowed to enter China to purchase goods and industrial products, etc. supplies, certain specially approved personnel are allowed.

China's response was very simple, but it caused an uproar all over the world.Many reporters were moved by the news and came to China one after another, wanting to discover further reports on this matter.If we say that the previous Jebsen incident was a fight between China and foreign countries, and it won.So this diplomatic struggle with Canada is a cultural struggle.

And look at China's response, although it is very simple, but the ruthless tricks and the hard work at every step are simply admirable.Canada excludes Chinese and prohibits Chinese from entering. China immediately announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Canada. The swiftness of the means and the fierce response made people dumbfounded.Moreover, when the diplomat answered the foreign reporter's question, his tone and meaning were full of sarcasm, which made many people present couldn't help but smile knowingly.

Doesn't Canada ban Chinese but not businessmen?Well, let's ban, ban all Chinese businessmen from entering Canada to engage in any economic and trade.As the Chinese government, he really has this right.You Canada, although the land is large, but the economy does not have much advantage over today's China.As far as China is concerned, Canada's economic and trade status in China is also extremely inconspicuous.

In addition, China has also called on Chinese and overseas Chinese from all over the world to unite, not only not to do business in Canada, but even to stop doing business with Canadians.This will not only hit the Canadian economy, but also make business people in Canada feel uncomfortable.We must know that today's Chinese businessmen can be said to be all over the world, especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese even occupy a dominant position in wealth in some countries.Even if today's Canada can turn a blind eye to this, but with the gradual development of China's economy in the future, Canadians will find out whether their choice is right or not.China can do without Canada, and if Canada loses the connection and cooperation with China, an important country in the future, their loss is definitely not just a commercial loss.

Canada does have some advantages in education, but compared to other developed countries, this advantage is almost negligible for China.And with a large number of overseas student programs over the years, China's domestic higher education has also undergone tremendous development.The number of government-sponsored international students studying abroad is gradually decreasing, and most of them are studying in fields that are scarce in China and important in the future.

You ban the Chinese, we can't stop it.You don't stop money, but we just don't let money flow into your country.And in the last article, China also announced that it would ban Canadians from entering China, which can be said to have made a reciprocal response.And also follow the example of Canada, not prohibiting Canadian businessmen from entering China to purchase materials.Note that it is to purchase items, that is to say, you can only come to China to buy things, but not sell things to China.It is more pungent than the regulation in Canada.

In addition, China does not prohibit special approval personnel, these personnel are generally scientific and technological personnel, high-tech personnel or other special circumstances.In some respects, it is more stringent than Canada's terms, but also in some respects, it is very liberal. Of course, this kind of freedom is controlled by a very small number of people such as Hua Fei.

295 The Opportunity for the Reversal of the Sino-Japanese Strategic Situation

The two countries are only engaged in a diplomatic confrontation.Because whether Canada prohibits Chinese from entering or China prohibits Canadians from entering China, there is not much commercial interest for each country.Although the trend of communism has a long history in various parts of the world, during the Spanish flu pandemic, China, especially Hua Fei, actively participated in the treatment of people from all over the world, which greatly improved the image of the Chinese in the world.So you, Canada, suddenly introduced this regulation, and it is true that you will not get much assistance from the international community.Canada has also begun to seek international assistance, but if you don't look at China today, it is completely different from the period when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing.Even the old empire, Britain, and China are unyielding in diplomacy. Why is the so-called diplomatic turmoil now, is it possible that Britain, France and the United States have sent troops to help you teach China a lesson?Obviously very unrealistic.

Obviously, things have developed to the point where it is today, and it is not easy for Canada to regress.So it can only be stalemate for the time being.For Huafei's Nanjing government, it really doesn't matter.Even the so-called developed countries in later generations don't have much weight, not to mention that for today's China, it has to compromise for its strength and influence.

A person can choose to kneel down and eat the wine and meat on the ground, or he can hold his head up.Straighten the spine, endure the hunger, and walk forward.We can't condemn the right and wrong choices of individuals in society, but for the country, the choices you make and the spiritual marks left behind are difficult to erase for hundreds of years!This is the inheritance of the spirit!

For Hua Fei, this incident is obviously just an episode in the process of drought relief, but the impact it has caused around the world, especially in the Chinese circle, is inestimable.Because if Hua Fei stood up to speak for the Chinese in the past, and even used strong methods, it was mostly to protect the life and property rights of the Chinese and overseas Chinese.But the nature of this time is different. What Hua Fei did this time is to protect the dignity of being a compatriot of the Chinese nation and the blood of descendants of Yan and Huang.

For some people, they can live by idling, as long as they live, they can abandon everything.But for some people, dignity is more important than living in humiliation.As posterity, when we look at the Battle of Yashan in the late Song Dynasty and saw hundreds of thousands of officials and civilians throwing themselves into the sea one after another, how should we view this historical fact?Only the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom, a long sigh, a long boo!

The hardest time has passed, the end of August.A nationwide rain made the dry land finally absorb some coolness.Although this precipitation does not have much effect on alleviating the drought, it is hope, new hope, hope for survival, and hope for the future to countless people who are on the front line of drought relief and those who are fighting on the construction site of water conservancy and reservoirs. .

An urgent telegram was quickly sent to Hua Fei. When Hua Fei saw the telegram, the pen and ink on the paper just decoded hadn't even dried yet. One can imagine how urgent this telegram is.After reading the content, Hua Fei immediately fell into a deep silence, and his mind was spinning rapidly to calculate many things, which made him feel complicated for a while, and it was hard to believe.

The telegram was simple, just a few words.An hour ago, in Kanto, Japan, there was a big earthquake, violent!The Great Kanto Earthquake?Hua Fei didn't know much about the Great Kanto Earthquake in his memory.However, Japan itself is a country with many earthquakes, and the Guanzhong area is one of the core areas of Japan, and it will definitely have a huge impact on Japan.

The Great Kanto Earthquake occurred in the Kanto Plain of Japan, with a magnitude of 8.2 on the Richter scale.The epicenter was located on Izu Oshima Island in Sagami Bay.Belongs to the vertical earthquake.The area of ​​influence includes Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Shizuoka prefectures.Therefore, it is also known as the Great Tokyo Earthquake in history.

Apart from the two major cities of Tokyo and Yokohama along this coast, there are many small towns, collectively referred to as the Kanto area.It is densely populated, industrially developed, and economically prosperous. It is the political, economic, and cultural center of Japan.The epicenter is about 60 kilometers away from Yokohama and about 90 kilometers away from Tokyo. Because this area is covered with soft alluvial layers, most of the wooden houses with poor earthquake resistance collapsed completely during the earthquake, causing serious losses.

Since the earthquake occurred at noon when cooking, most people’s homes were unable to respond in time due to the huge earthquake, causing the cooking utensils to collapse or collapse, and flames sprang up one after another, and the wooden houses commonly used in Japan caused a large-scale fire in Tokyo. It almost turned the Kanto region of Japan into a hell on earth.Some citizens, young and old, who fled to shelters or air-raid shelters were engulfed by the fire.Thousands of victims fled to the beach and jumped into the sea to escape the fire.However, a few hours later, an explosion occurred at an oil depot near the beach, and more than 10 tons of oil were injected into the bay.The fire ignited the oil on the surface of the water, and the bay instantly became a sea of ​​flames.All those who took refuge in the sea were burned to death by the fire.

Others fled to beaches and ports where the blazes have temporarily escaped.However, the tsunami caused by the earthquake set off a monstrous wave, which rushed to the coast of the harbor bay at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour, destroyed all ships, port facilities and near-shore houses, swept away and smashed 8000 ships, and drowned more than 5 ships. people.Large and small ports such as Tokyo, Yokohama, and Yokosuka were paralyzed.

In this earthquake, 85% of the houses in Tokyo were destroyed, 96% of the houses in Yokohama were razed to the ground, and the number of dead and missing people in the Greater Tokyo area exceeded 14.More than 20 people were injured, and more than 300 million people suffered property damage.