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Doda's reign also saw the marginalization of the military men from political positions and their replacement with lawyers and technocrats. The rebellious general Pantu Gou once bitterly complained about the perceived ingratitude of the system against generals like him thus: ''the present was bought with the blood of the army and its sons and now the future has been handed down to chiselers in suits and self interested frauds''. On August 1974 the commander of the sixth military zone comprising Peguo and Xing provinces mutinied. General Pantu Gou occupied the provincial capitals of [[Touxian]] and [[Xidian]], he communicated his demands by phone: an end to the marginalization of the army from decisionmaking, an end to the firing of officers critical of government policies, restoration of ranks and pensions of those fired. The government rejected any negotiation with 'mutinous vestiges of a privileged elite' and moved military elements to suppress him. Pantu Gou failed to convince other military leaders of importance to join the mutiny and his own troops began to desert in dismay. A mere four days after the start of the mutiny the general was arrested in [[Touxian]] and his forces sent back to their barracks. Pantu Gou's shortlived mutiny was the last and most public display of discontent from within the ranks of the army, after this event the generals seemed to resign themselves to a curtailed role as protectors of the system but not powerbrokers again. [[Min Bib Doda]] used the incident as an excuse to also put in place a ban on military officers in active duty to serve as governors of provinces or mayor as had been the case since [[Qiu Heng]]'s reign; members of the party who wished to aspire to such postings had to first renounce their military commissions and be properly vetted for signs of 'militarized thinking deviances' and inadequate fidelity to the system. Doda is today lauded as being the president who defanged the military and bent it to the will of civilian politicians again; this tradition of the military staying out of politics has continued and taken root even after a change of party at the top. | Doda's reign also saw the marginalization of the military men from political positions and their replacement with lawyers and technocrats. The rebellious general Pantu Gou once bitterly complained about the perceived ingratitude of the system against generals like him thus: ''the present was bought with the blood of the army and its sons and now the future has been handed down to chiselers in suits and self interested frauds''. On August 1974 the commander of the sixth military zone comprising Peguo and Xing provinces mutinied. General Pantu Gou occupied the provincial capitals of [[Touxian]] and [[Xidian]], he communicated his demands by phone: an end to the marginalization of the army from decisionmaking, an end to the firing of officers critical of government policies, restoration of ranks and pensions of those fired. The government rejected any negotiation with 'mutinous vestiges of a privileged elite' and moved military elements to suppress him. Pantu Gou failed to convince other military leaders of importance to join the mutiny and his own troops began to desert in dismay. A mere four days after the start of the mutiny the general was arrested in [[Touxian]] and his forces sent back to their barracks. Pantu Gou's shortlived mutiny was the last and most public display of discontent from within the ranks of the army, after this event the generals seemed to resign themselves to a curtailed role as protectors of the system but not powerbrokers again. [[Min Bib Doda]] used the incident as an excuse to also put in place a ban on military officers in active duty to serve as governors of provinces or mayor as had been the case since [[Qiu Heng]]'s reign; members of the party who wished to aspire to such postings had to first renounce their military commissions and be properly vetted for signs of 'militarized thinking deviances' and inadequate fidelity to the system. Doda is today lauded as being the president who defanged the military and bent it to the will of civilian politicians again; this tradition of the military staying out of politics has continued and taken root even after a change of party at the top. | ||
Doda also began a national campaign against bribery and corruption; dubbed the 'Rat-catching crusade'. Doda's crusade had two main objectives, firstly to shore up public support for the party by cleaning out the most egregious cases of corruption and secondly to recover and in some cases repatriate ill gotten wealth and use it for public works. Billions of lire were squirreled away in bank accounts across the world by corrupt officials and tax authorities typically looked the other way to avoid embarrassing political questions. Doda installed an official who was all but a viceroy in name at the top of the tax collection agency, his sole remit being to plunge into these shady financial networks and bring the stolen resources back. There was grumbling and resistance from within the system to the campaign; in response the powers of the [[National Intelligence Bureau]] were dramatically beefed up to accelerate the campaign and silence dissenters. In the first term of Doda's term some 1.5 million functionaries of all levels were prosecuted and in his second term another 2.4 million were procesed by the justice system. An estimated 12.6 billion lire were recovered by tax authorities during the eight years the campaign was active. | Doda also began a national campaign against bribery and corruption; dubbed the 'Rat-catching crusade'. Doda's crusade had two main objectives, firstly to shore up public support for the party by cleaning out the most egregious cases of corruption and secondly to recover and in some cases repatriate ill gotten wealth and use it for public works. Billions of lire were squirreled away in bank accounts across the world by corrupt officials and tax authorities typically looked the other way to avoid embarrassing political questions. Doda installed an official who was all but a viceroy in name at the top of the tax collection agency, his sole remit being to plunge into these shady financial networks and bring the stolen resources back. There was grumbling and resistance from within the system to the campaign; in response the powers of the [[National Intelligence Bureau]] were dramatically beefed up to accelerate the campaign and silence dissenters. In the first term of Doda's term some 1.5 million functionaries of all levels were prosecuted and in his second term another 2.4 million were procesed by the justice system. An estimated 12.6 billion lire were recovered by tax authorities during the eight years the campaign was active. The effectiveness of the campaign also brought its principal executor to public attention, Chief Inspector of the National Tax Directorate Yang Qiu. A veteran and effective government official, the tight lipped Qian was cut from the same cloth as the president and was soon placed as the forerunner to be te NRF's candidate despite all his protestations that he planned to retire at the end of Doda's presidency. | ||
===Yang Qiu era and the Slow Death=== | ===Yang Qiu era and the Slow Death=== | ||
[[File:Yang Qiu.png|thumb|Yang Qiu was the oldest president of the NRF when he took office, he was 71]] | |||
===Tao Zexian era and collapse=== | ===Tao Zexian era and collapse=== | ||
===Persecution of remnants=== | ===Persecution of remnants=== | ||