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Make France Great Again - Chapter 313

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Chapter 313: Military reform dilemma

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"You mean that if the army wants to return to its original appearance, it must carry out a large-scale military operation!"

Major General Niel was taken aback by Jerome Bonaparte's sudden war talk. God is pitiful, his original intention was just to ask Jean-Jérôme Bonaparte not to be too hasty on the road of reforming the army.

After all, the reform of the military is not achieved overnight, especially in the era of peace, it is necessary to balance the interests of all parties to find a balance point to complete the reform of the military.

Reforms that seek quick success and quick profits will only lead to resistance from all parties, and the combat effectiveness of the army will not increase but decline.

Of course, the use of war to promote reform in the opposite direction is also a suitable method.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the reform of the military station involves various interests... and these problems are far from being solved by a war. Our army has also fought wars in Spain and Belgium..." Major General Nier gave Gereau a serious expression. Jim Bonaparte explained that he tried to persuade Jerome Bonaparte to give up the idea of ​​solving the problem of the military station in a short time.

"Major General Niel! If you are in charge of rectifying the military post, how long will it take you to restore the post to its original function!" Jerome Bonaparte asked with a smile after listening to Major General Niel's explanation. Major General Niel said that he believed that Niel should have thought of a solution.

Just as Jerome Bonaparte had expected, Major General Niel wanted to raise three fingers and responded to Jerome Bonaparte: "Three years! Your Excellency, please give me three years, I will The recruitment function of the military station can be restored!"

"What about the material function?" Jerome Bonaparte was keenly aware of Major General Niel's "loophole".

"I'm afraid it will take another two years!" Major General Jerome Bonaparte explained: "Your Excellency, we must ensure that the location of the military station is in line with the railway, which means that the existing military station must be It will take at least three years to rebuild a brand new military station system!"

Niel's explanation convinced Jérôme Bonaparte that Niel had the ability to promote military reform. He immediately said: "Okay! I can give you three years!"

"Besides, you have to promise me a few conditions!" Niel then put forward his own conditions.

"Huh?" Jerome Bonaparte asked with a smile of interest: "Tell me, what conditions!"

"The first condition is that I hope that the number of recruits from next year will increase!" Niel put forward his first condition.

"Could it be that the reserves of the French army are not enough?" Jerome Bonaparte asked curiously.

"Yes, and no!" Major General Niel embarrassedly said a "bigger" problem currently facing the army, that is, the "aging" of the army, "Our army has too many experienced veterans, they Most of them have served for more than ten years, or even more than twenty years, and a large number of soldiers aged 40 to 50 stay in the army! Such soldiers often become cancer in the army, and they will put the whole The army is completely corrupted! So we have to remove these people from the army."

Major General Niel wanted to rectify the existing military service system of the French Republic by rectifying the military station.

"Major General Niel, have you ever thought about how those who have been eliminated from the army should seek to survive in this society!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately asked: "Some of them have already entered the army when they were teenagers. , has been in the army for more than 20 years! It can be said to be isolated from the world, people like this only kill and drink! You suddenly kicked them out of the army, how will they survive after that!"

Jerome Bonaparte's rhetorical question really made Major General Niel realize the trouble that he had never thought about before, that is, the placement of veterans, "I didn't think about it!"

Jerome Bonaparte thought carefully about the solution for a certain great power in the future, and then replied: "That's it! For every soldier who has reached a certain age, the army will issue a subsidy, and the payment of the subsidy will vary depending on the situation. Soldiers who have served in the army for more than 12 years, the state will be obliged to seek jobs for them, and the government will also issue documents to state-owned enterprises and private enterprises at the regional, provincial and municipal levels, so that they can properly place veterans! Even the poorest soldiers can act as security guards in factories! We have to make sure that the guys who are kicked out of the army don't become a destabilizing factor in society!"

Jérôme Bonaparte's solution is neither good nor bad. The entry of a large number of unemployed soldiers into state-owned enterprises and private enterprises will certainly result in loss of business costs, but from the perspective of maintaining stability, the reemployment of soldiers is conducive to the stability of the army and society.

At least the soldiers will no longer become the "dregs" of society and be despised by all parties as before.

After speaking, Jerome Bonaparte once again asked Nier how many soldiers should be increased each year.

"Your Excellency, I think there should be an increase of 20,000 people every year, that is to say, from the original 80,000 to 100,000!" Major General Jérôme Bonaparte said.

Hearing Major General Niel's words, Jerome Bonaparte couldn't help shaking his head and said with emotion: "Do you know what it means to increase by 20,000 people?"

"It means that the army of the army will have to spend on a large scale again!" Major General Nierre replied with a sonorous force, standing upright in front of Jerome Bonaparte.

"Since you know, why increase it!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Brigadier General Niel: "Now there are only the two of us...

Jerome Bonaparte looked at Mocart again and immediately changed his tune: "There are only the three of us. Let me tell you the truth. France needs money in the West. How can I have any extra money to invest in the army! An additional 20,000 troops are added every year. This means that the army will spend nearly 100 million francs every year!"

"Your Excellency, I think this is totally worth it!" Major General Niel said without giving in at all: "The army we can mobilize can also increase by 100,000 to 150,000 people!"

Niel's words hit the heart of Jerome Bonaparte. Jerome Bonaparte, who had always been eager to build a huge army, would not care about the so-called military expenditure.

What if France spends 100 million more on the military every year? From now until the Franco-Prussian War, the extra military expenditure is only 2 billion yuan, which is a drop in the bucket compared with the compensation after the Franco-Prussian War.

"I can agree to your terms!" Jerome Bonaparte responded to Niel.

"The second condition, I hope to increase the amount of substitute service!" Major General Jérôme Bonaparte once again put forward a condition.

Compared with the first "harsh" condition, the second condition is particularly loose, "How much do you want to improve?"

"Four thousand francs per person!" said Major General Jerome Bonaparte.

"4,000 francs! (about 12,000 US dollars Jerome Bonaparte looked at Major General Niel in surprise: "It's not easy to raise this money!"

A French peasant's annual income balance is about 900-1200 francs, and the right to be exempted from military service for 4,000 francs is equivalent to the money that an ordinary peasant family can save by working without food or drink for 4 years.

Of course, this money is not a big problem for families of the bourgeois class.

"That's right!" Major General Niel's purpose was to make those French peasants who wanted to evade military service not able to evade military service.

The army must have some "good children" to maintain its own discipline.

"I have a suggestion. When the Ministry of War recruits soldiers, can it focus on the cities where the recruits are recruited!" Jerome Bonaparte suddenly realized why he took this opportunity to cut those bourgeois leeks.

Every year, the money paid by the bourgeois class to exempt from military service is transferred to the countryside in the form of subsidies, so as to make the French countryside less resistant to military service.

Major General Niel did not speak. The specific recruitment was handled by the Recruitment Department (and the Recruitment Committee) under the Quartermaster Department. He was just an "ordinary" director of the logistics department.

"Apart from these two conditions, do you have any other conditions!" Jerome Bonaparte continued to ask Major General Niel.

"No more!" Major General Niel shook his head. "As long as these two conditions are met, then I am confident that the military station will resume its original functions within three years!"

"Remember what you said!" Jerome Bonaparte sat up again from the sofa and said to Major General Niel: "Let's go!"

"Ah?" Major General Niel looked at Jerome Bonaparte suspiciously.

Jerome Bonaparte pointed to the pendulum clock and said to Major General Niel: "It's almost eight o'clock now, it's time for you to go to work!"

It was only then that Major General Niel realized that his work in the War Department was not done.

"Let's go! Ride in my carriage!" Jerome Bonaparte invited Major General Niel to get into the carriage.

The carriage carried Jerome Bonaparte and Major General Niel to the front of the Ministry of War building.

Jérôme Bonaparte, who entered the hall of the Ministry of War, was led by Secretary of State Benjamin Clemenceau into the office of the Minister of War, Saint Arnault.

"Your Majesty!" As for Jerome Bonaparte and Niel entering his office together, Saint Arnault felt a little out of his opinion.

"The specific situation~www.novelhall.com~ Major General Niel has already reported it to me!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately said to Saint Arnaud: "I know your difficulties, not just because you are afraid to say the emperor It's not good, it arouses my dissatisfaction!"

Since Jerome Bonaparte had pierced that layer of window paper, there was no need for Saint Arnault to pretend to be confused.

"There are some factors..." Saint Arnault responded to Jerome Bonaparte: "But there are also many problems with the army itself..."

"Since you have already discovered the problem, why don't you correct it?" Jerome Bonaparte's tone became somewhat aggressive.

"Your Majesty, the army is a huge whole, rashly..." St. Arnault was afraid that the drastic reforms might cause unfavorable factors to the Bonapartists. In his opinion, France maintains the existing system and is still the No. 1 army in Europe. Even if the reform is completed, France will still be No. 1 in Europe.

If they do not change to be the first in Europe, they will still be the first in Europe after the reform, so why should they take huge political risks to carry out reform.

Not only Saint Arnault had this idea, but the vast majority of military bureaucrats in the War Department also agreed with Saint Arnault.

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