Chapter 513 [512]

Chang Kaishen left with a stomach full of Huang Laozhi, feeling that he had gained a lot, but Zhou Hexuan was a little depressed.

What is Chang Kaishen's biggest problem?

Headstrong!

This shortcoming has made countless anti-Japanese soldiers miserable. He played micromanagement during the Xuzhou battle, he played micromanagement during the Songhu battle, and he played micromanagement during the Nanjing defense war. Chang Kaishen was still in China until the expeditionary army went abroad to fight. Keep playing with micromanagement.

Thousands of miles away from the battlefield, even in the information age, it is impossible for the head of the central government to fully control the ever-changing frontline.

However, our great Generalissimo Chiang thinks he can.

Take the Chinese Expeditionary Force as an example. On the 10th, Chang Kaishen appointed Stilwell as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, and on the 11th he appointed Du Yuming as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army. On a battlefield, there are actually two commanders-in-chief, who should the soldiers below listen to?

The funniest thing is that neither Stilwell nor Du Yuming had real decision-making power, because Generalissimo Jiang had to personally strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away. He wrote "thousands of words" to Du Yuming at every turn, and "guided the Burmese war policy in great detail".

Chang Kaishen misjudged the situation in Burma from beginning to end. At the beginning, he thought that the Japanese army would not dare to go deep into Burma, so he deployed the army according to the established policy of preventing the Japanese from escaping. Even though their own air force was weak, they ordered Chennault to send three planes at a time to harass the Japanese army several times a day, which quickly exposed their own air force base.

Chang Kaishen also considered himself a military genius, and said triumphantly in his diary: Except for him, no one dared to make such a battle plan. As a result, the day after Lao Jiang wrote this diary, Leiyun Airport in Myanmar was bombed, and more than 20 aircraft of the Flying Tigers were almost completely destroyed.

Because of Lao Jiang's misjudgment, the strategic deployment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was full of loopholes, and the air supremacy was completely ruined just after the fight started.

The most speechless is still behind, Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying ordered the expeditionary force to retreat to India. However, Chang Kaishen commanded Du Yuming remotely to let the expeditionary force return to the country through Myitzhi (harmony). Although this plan is risky, it is not impossible to operate. But Chang Kaishen refused to allow the vanguard to seize and hold on to the strategic points, which resulted in the retreat route of the expeditionary force being cut off by the Japanese and forced to enter the savage mountainous area. The final result was disastrous.

One general is incompetent, and the three armies are exhausted.

Zhou Hexuan only hopes that Chang Kaishen can get rid of this bad habit, and repeatedly narrates Huang Laozhi's thoughts of "putting public affairs to selfishness" and "abandoning wisdom and selfishness". ——If you don’t understand military affairs, don’t intervene, let those military experts fight by themselves, and as the supreme commander, just grasp the big and let go of the small.

In fact, the thought of governing the country of the Huang-Lao School can be summed up very simply. It is to set up the overall framework of the national government, formulate an effective administrative system and judicial system according to the current situation and public opinion, and choose a correct direction and goal. The leader controls the overall situation in the middle, and the specific affairs are carried out by professionals.

The central idea here is "cleanness and inaction", that is, those in power should not interfere too much with the operation of administrative justice. But it is "omnipotent", and the established administrative and judicial system must be strictly maintained. Whether it is the supreme leader or ordinary officials, they must strictly abide by the rules set, and those who make mistakes should be arrested and killed.

However, Chang Kaishen sat on the sofa and listened to it for a long time. He was only interested in the machinations of Huang Laozhi's study, and could not listen to the real key core ideas at all.

Abandoning the great way and taking the small way, this is the kind of person that I am talking about.

Not to mention that the situation is too complicated, the factions are too chaotic, and the theory of Huang Lao cannot be used. With Chang Kaishen's current power, it is obvious that this system can be implemented in the Whampoa system. For example, the Blue Shirts Club can firmly implement the established strategy. As long as Chang Kaishen can persevere, the small circle can be expanded into a large circle, and countless people with lofty ideals can be attracted to serve.

Chang Kaishen's current approach is just the opposite, eliminating dissidents through violence and gathering people's hearts through interests. This can only lead to "the sages depart and the villains gather". Once Chang Kaishen is unable to mediate the interests of the factions, it will inevitably lead to the end of betrayal.

In fact, Chang Kaishen has now been "betrayed". Many people who supported him a few years ago are now standing up against him one by one. People like Cai Yuanpei who planned to participate in the purge of the party, although they did not openly betray, they also quietly engaged in various boycotts.

Huang-Lao's theory talks about "following the Tao according to the sky", and Chang Kaishen is just "acting against the sky". The current "way of heaven" is resistance to Japan and democracy. Even if he can't do it for the time being, he can still make a certain gesture to fool people, and he will definitely win a lot of people's hearts by then.

Huang Lao's theory talks about "creating public affairs and eliminating private interests" and "governing the country according to law", while Chang Kaishen is precisely "abolishing public affairs with private interests" and "ruling the country with people", taking the lead in undermining the country's administrative and judicial system. If the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the KMT will only become more and more corrupt and corrupt, and it will only be a matter of time before it loses the island.

During the entire period of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, there were three "constitutional movements".

For the first time, it began in 1929 and reached its peak in 1932. All citizens hoped for a democratic and constitutional government. However, Chang Kaishen was suppressed through the rule of secret agents, and has since completely deviated from the popular will and the general trend.

The second time was from the beginning of the all-out war of resistance. Under pressure, Chang Kaishen pretended to carry out "preparatory democratic constitutional government" and agreed to all political parties and democrats to participate in politics. Although the democratic constitution this time is fake, it is already exciting enough. As long as the fake continues, most people will still support Chang Kaishen.

However, Chang Kaishen is unwilling to do even fake democracy. When the Japanese army's attack slowed down, Chang Kaishen immediately drew his hands to deal with the democrats, causing countless democrats to look confused, and then rebounded angrily.

So there was the third constitutional government movement. The original position of the major democratic parties was to support the Kuomintang to build the country, but Chang Kaishen forced them to unite to overthrow the dictatorship of the Kuomintang, restrict and urge the Kuomintang to implement democratic constitutional reforms.

One of the best examples is Zhang Junmai, who was very supportive of Chang Kaishen's fake democracy, and believed that fake democracy could slowly transition into real democracy. He resolutely opposed communism, resolutely opposed the Communist Party's armed forces, and urged the Communist Party to hand over the training and command of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

Due to Chang Kaishen's continuous perverse behavior, Zhang Junmai jumped directly and began to actively seek cooperation with the Communist Party. In Dong Biwu's original words: "Not only does he (Zhang Junmai) not oppose our expansion of the army and the establishment of border regions, but he is also afraid that our army is not strong enough, and that our border regions will be attacked! He already believes that our party is the foundation of China's realization of democracy. A necessary ally."

The process of the failure of the Kuomintang in mainland China is the process of constantly making mistakes and pushing its supporters to the Communist Party.

Zhou Hexuan has the leisure to talk nonsense with Chang Kaishen, but just wants the other party to implement fake democracy in advance. However, after Chang Kaishen went back, there was no more follow-up. He was unwilling to even deceive democrats, thinking that such an approach would cause more trouble.