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After 2 minutes, Beijing replied with a message:
"Received, the chairman and General Su have known about it. The chairman, General Su, and the staff team are busy next door making plans for the battle. Xiao Cao."
Ah?It turned out to be him?Didn't it mean that he went to the State Planning Commission to report to work after returning from North Korea?
Tang Hua sent the question over.
"The First Five-Year Plan is to be reviewed by the Soviet comrades. Before the Soviet expert group comes to Beijing, the translation task of the Planning Committee is not heavy, and the existing translators are enough. I still have a military position as a confidential secretary. The War Information Center is busy now. I will come Handle communications and computer matters."
The Soviet expert group will indeed arrive later.But now Tang Hua and the chief accountant have started the "automatic operation" before the finalization of the First Five-Year Plan according to the self-modified draft.
"The time for the First Five-Year Plan has now begun. Before the plan was finalized, Vice Premier Chen drew up a plan for trial operation. Now various industrial departments are operating according to this plan to ensure that the State Planning Commission can still coordinate and command all regions during the transition period. Industrial construction. If the War Information Center has been busy for a while, you can go to help. The State Planning Commission has also popularized computers, and the network scale is much larger than that of the War Information Center. Many departments lack skilled computer operators.”
"Received. After returning to China, I went to Chairman Gao's place twice. I never saw any computers. I always thought that the State Planning Commission was imitating the traditional Soviet state department."
"The temporary office of the State Planning Commission is in Beiheyan Street, Dongcheng District." Tang Hua originally wanted to type in "it's not Chairman Gao's courtyard house", but after thinking about it, he still didn't type, so he sent the first sentence past.
After the screen prompts that the information has been transmitted to the computer in Beijing, the screen in front of Tang Hua has been silent for several minutes.
"The Planning Commission is an extremely important national department in the future. Now the leaders and staff of the Planning Commission come from all over the country. Some comrades who worked together for a long time in the local area have joined the Planning Commission. This is a normal phenomenon, and we will not avoid this. We must face it and solve it. This cannot affect the work of the Planning Commission, and then affect the industrial construction of the whole country. Some old comrades are not so fast in accepting new things. Xiaotang, you are also a member of the State Planning Commission , To be a teacher patiently, more than a dozen members of the planning committee, the chairman, the vice chairman and the secretary-general must understand the functions of computers in the future and learn to use them.”
Cough... I said what's going on, it was Xiao Cao's father who came over.
"Chairman, don't worry, I will work hard to solve the problem after I go back, so that the State Planning Commission can master new production tools and management tools as soon as possible."
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White House.
"Sungman Rhee was not very willing to stop the Korean War."
Sherman Adams, who used to be the backbone of Eisenhower's campaign team and is now promoted to be the chief of staff of the White House, first expressed his views after visiting South Korea.
"Sungman Rhee's biggest worry is that after the North Korean armistice agreement, the United States will stop providing all-round assistance to South Korea, and South Korea's economy, finances, and military may all be significantly affected. Second, he is worried that after the peace with the North, the legitimacy of his regime will be affected. Third, after the peace agreement, South Korea’s external threats will be reduced, and the pressure of survival will drop, and he will also face challenges from his subordinate military and political powerhouses.”
"President Syngman Rhee's concern is reasonable if he thinks about it from his perspective." Eisenhower said, "We might as well tell him that after the Korean War, the United States will still provide military and economic assistance to South Korea. , the United States will reject the option of 'withdrawing all foreign troops from North Korea' on the terms of the armistice agreement, which means that the United States still intends to maintain troops in South Korea to assist President Lee in defending against possible North Korean attacks. But there are some things we are not going to tell He, that is, after the end of the Korean War, our military aid and economic aid to South Korea will be reduced, and we only need to maintain the limit to ensure the safety of South Korea itself. But this is also the main reason why we negotiated an armistice with China. We can $20 billion, $30 billion in aid to North Korea, but you can't afford to burn $200 billion a year pointlessly on the Korean peninsula."
"The $200 billion has not been completely burned, and some of it has been spent in meaningful ways." Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson said, "From 1951 to the present, due to the stimulus of war, domestic military orders have increased. The bulk is military equipment, and many new weapons research and development contracts have also been issued. Of course, maintaining the war in North Korea is still an excessive and unaffordable expense.”
Charles Wilson took office on January 1, the same day as Eisenhower took office, and he was also one of Eisenhower's staff.
Unlike think-tank team member Sherman Adams, Charles Wilson's previous job was as CEO of General Motors.Even after he became secretary of defense on January 1, he has held a large stake in GM.The Senate couldn't take it anymore. The Senate Armed Services Committee just sent him a hearing notice yesterday, asking him to explain what happened to him, and asking him to sell the shares of General Motors as soon as possible.
If it is in the interests of Charles Wilson, of course...it is more beneficial to maintain the Korean War.
Now the Cold War confrontation is becoming more and more intense every year. If the United States does not fight in North Korea, it will invest a lot of military spending to compete with the Soviet Union in the future.However, in the war in North Korea, General Motors benefited the most from purchasing more tanks and vehicles.In the cold war with the Soviet Union in other places, the orders may be bombers, nuclear bombs, warships, etc., and the profits earned by General Motors will be less.
Eisenhower looked at Charles Wilson, and did not express his opinion immediately. Instead, he turned to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Bradley: "If we tame the top Korean leaders, how far is it from the final signing of the armistice agreement?"
"If the South Korean high-level does not raise objections, then we are still short of signing the armistice agreement with four unresolved disputes, which are items 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the truce negotiation agenda."
Eisenhower: "Except that the military demarcation line of the armistice has been agreed in principle, all other terms have not been agreed?"
Bradley spread his hands.He's really embarrassed to explain this situation too thoroughly. Bradley is a five-star general, so shameless...
Sherman Adams answered that question for Bradley.
"In terms of prisoners of war, the Chinese refuse to discuss the issue of prisoners of war with us. I guess the Chinese want to use prisoners of war as bargaining chips to exchange some benefits. After all, they have 4 Americans and we only have [-] Chinese prisoners of war, and another thousand. Fake prisoners of war. What they want is not the interests of the Korean Peninsula but the interests of China. My opinion is, find a suitable place and middleman, talk to them, and give them.”
"Which country did the observers come from after the armistice? China requires the observers to come from Warsaw Pact countries or small countries that are not in the Warsaw Pact but are completely neutral in the war. We advocate that the permanent members of the Security Council add some neutral effects. This is my opinion, the Chinese There is room for concessions in the bottom line, and we can also make appropriate concessions."
"After the signing of the armistice agreement, all foreign troops will leave the Korean peninsula. I guess China is not [-]% committed to this one. I want to contact our delegation at the Huachuan negotiation soon to confirm my guess..."
"But all the controversies come down to one point, that is, our current situation on the Korean peninsula is not ideal. Although we can hold on to the front line, it is a completely passive defense. In the entire confrontation line, there is no place to counterattack. , Even if it is a tactical counterattack achieved with a small battle, there is nowhere to be found."
The current situation in the Korean War is a bit like a Go game that is coming to an end. There has long been no blank space for power on the chessboard, and there are not even many officials worth fighting for.If there is no accident, you should stop and count at this time to see who wins and who loses.
While listening to Sherman Adams' analysis, Eisenhower scratched his head thinking about something.
After Adams finished his last sentence, Eisenhower spoke:
"General Bradley, 'Atomic Anne', that cannon that fires the nuclear bomb, Picatinny Arsenal has delivered two to the Army, yes? Shipped it to North Korea."
Chapter 18, the first integrated circuit product
"This logo... I mean, what is this door sign, a grill?"
Tang Hua was visiting the chief accountant at the hospital. By the way, he flipped through the photos he took casually when he was on a business trip to the Northeast. The building of the Northeast Heavy Industry Planning Bureau of the State Planning Commission in Shenyang was replaced by a special gate sign. I don’t know if it counts. Count as department badge.
Chief Accountant: "This is made by the comrades of the Northeast Planning Bureau with waste materials. It is the symbol of the heavy industry department. This row of copper bars represents hot steel bars, with cutting knives and processing equipment on them, and the shelf below the bars represents A machine tool. The manufacture of steel and industrial machine tools is the current key development direction of Northeast China."
"It's still a grill. But it's a nice representation of heavy industry."
"Grilling for heavy industry? Isn't that good too?"
"Well, the pollution is huge. I said, if the Northeast Light Industry Planning Bureau also makes department signs, it would be best to put a microphone on it."
"The microphone is indeed a light industrial product. But isn't your microphone produced in Shanghai and Suzhou? What does it have to do with Northeast China?"
(It's not made by the microphone, it's called the microphone) But Tang Hua still swallowed this sentence in his stomach.
At the beginning of 1953, the chief accountant became ill.He also shouted that the air in Beijing was too bad, so he went straight back to his hometown in Shanghai and was hospitalized.
"Vice Premier Chen," Tang Hua asked after deliberating for a while, "Are you really sick?"
"What are you talking about? Of course I'm really sick." The chief accountant gave Tang Hua a wary look.
Tang Hua looked at the ward again. Except for a few medicine bottles on the bedside table, there were no other medical equipment, but there were two full shelves of books and materials. The chief accountant was half sitting and half lying on the hospital bed, holding a stack of reports in his left hand, A small abacus, holding a pen between the fingers, and reviewing while counting.
"..."
"Now, there are slightly more key industrial projects in the Northeast." The chief accountant said, "But to a certain extent, this is also beneficial. The industrial foundation in the Northeast is already strong, and if resources are invested, the benefits will be higher than those in the Northeast. It is better to build a new industrial zone in the customs.”
"The population of the provinces and cities inside the customs is much larger than that outside the customs. From the perspective of driving the increase in the industrialization rate of the national population, while investing in the Northeast industry, properly arrange heavy industry projects for the big cross provinces as a pavement for future development. In the long run It is very important to the national industrial master plan." Tang Hua said.
Tang Hua discussed with the chief accountant before that the first five and the second five industrial key areas are connected together with the word "♀", and a circle represents the Northeast, and industrialization has been realized in large areas.Below the cross, the vertical line is the Ping-Han Railway and the Guangdong-Han Railway (which will be connected to the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway by the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in the future), and the horizontal line is the Yangtze River.
In 1953, the dredging of the Yangtze River channel was about to be completed, and 1 tons of explosives were used to clear the reefs and widen the channel. In the future, [-] tons of inland river freighters can sail directly to Chongqing, so the horizontal line is from Chongqing to Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Taking the Yangtze River as the backbone of transportation, it radiates to Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai.
The vertical line takes the railway as the backbone of transportation and radiates to Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong.
The traffic situation of the vertical railway is also improving. At the end of 1952, the double-track reconstruction of the Ping-Han Railway began. This year, it is planned to start the double-track reconstruction of the Guangdong-Han Railway.
The intersection of one horizontal and one vertical is Wuhan, so Hubei is very important.Tang Hua has been wondering if he has to go to Wuhan this year.
The chief accountant said thoughtfully: "Then we will try our best to do this job well, and don't worry about the others."
"Our country is so big and has a large population. Of course, only one industrial zone in the northeast is not enough, and our strength is more than that. This industrialization is not a multiple-choice question, but all parts of the country..." Tang Hua said, "Deputy Chen Prime Minister, this abacus is a little inefficient as an auxiliary tool, let me give you a computer."